Running the no-theme version, runs smooth (extra 2M free?)
Couldn't we add a menu script to openrecovery (/sdcard/OpenRecovery/utility/RemoveThemes or similar) to simply delete the Theme*.apk files?
It is not that simple. If it would be, you could easily remove those 2 files using some file manager (with root support), terminal, adb...
System needs to support being themed, that's why it was necessary to remove overall theme support, and that is what kabaldan did for us. Only reason why there are two "versions" for latest nightly.