Yeah, true but do you think more and more people will start looking towards templates as they get more popular? Like 10 years ago, options were limited and people had no choice but to contact a professional web designer to get their website up and running.
In my opinion, in 5, 10 years it might not be enough for a web designer to just be able to present great-looking sites. He/she will probably need to have additional skills (ie. programming) in order to be able to customize sites to a point where templates will not be able to compete.
Granted, there are still a lot of clients out there who appreciate what a real designer can do compared to an out-of-the-box solution. But I think as time goes on, we will start seeing less and less of these clients.
Any thoughts?