The Joomla News and Magazin Templates are much too overloaded and the logic is something very specific. Nobody wants and needs the complicated constructions, when even a simple wordpress blog can get very famous without overloaded template. So that is why most people use Wordpress
Alone to understand the navigation menu structure takes a while, when the logic is only there when your are architect or engineer... So what to do? No wonder joomlart is buying into wordpress business... Still after years I do not like the template system and how the workflow needs a permanent instruction and printed plan where all parameter are spread all over different areas which you cannot imagine by logic.... Joomlart, good work but overdone...