It's too bad that you didn't have a pleasant experience with it and had to abandon your account. :( There's so much wrong with the site, from the users to the layout and features. I don't like it much either. From what I've seen, people can be so rude and opinionated, it's overwhelming. That's why I only follow accounts that exclusively post nice pictures or fandom related content.

I'm sad to hear you won't be making any more layouts. I think it's a good place to practice coding as it allows you to build the layout from scratch and you can also use javascript. I have learned a lot, that's why I continue to use it. Though the site coders manage to mess things up once in a while making it frustrating to theme makers.

I think I know what you mean about people being ungrateful. Theme makers always complain about people removing their credit or being rude to them. Or was it something else?

As for the ads, I managed to get rid of them with an adblock filter. Have you tried adding one?

I hope that you feel much better now. <3