Yeah if you think about it.. The major "theme-related" goodies can be done outside of a "toolbox" in bootstrap, such as installing a theme, changing the system font (in which case there is a big site dedicated to droid flashable font zips), installing a themed app or other goodies. The other non-file-download things such as system config tweaks can typically be done elsewhere as well such as sysctl settings, zipaligning apps, etc.
Agreed, the Apex 1.4.1 toolbox in terminal works well, except the debacle with his hosted server going down rendering everyone's toolbox useless at best. Makes you wonder whether you'd want so much reliance on a remote host for sourcing themes and modded apps. Plus it's one more thing for our developer to manage. Granted it took me a while to learn that I'd be fishing through forums for goodies including the roms, themes, fixes, fonts, info on settings, as opposed to a big disneyworld website.