I've learned a lot from SBI and will renew my subscription even though I've not made anything this year from it. (I didn't ever monitize my site).
I'm starting again with a completely new tack and am very positive about it given what I've learned in this previous year.
I don't want to have to learn coding (I understand a little html but that's it) so it's good for me to have someone to take care of the back end.
In terms of the L&F I agree they are very clunky and offend my taste sensibilities! However a new 3 column template is being launched soon which might help. When I'm up and running I'm going to by a template by Rebecca from this site (world-of-lucid-dreaming) as I that's a lovely site and you would never know it was SBI from looking at it.
In addition I thought it might be useful to mention something. I had a few articles about detoxing on my old wordpress blog. I removed them and transfered them to my SBI site. Even though I only put 3 pages up before I took a long break, those three pages are consistenly getting more than 300 visitors a month with no marketing and nothing being done to the site for 6 months or so. The same articles with the same keywords had precisely 0 visitors per month when they were on my blog. To me it proves that SBI does something good, even though I don't know what it was.
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