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The thing I like about the flatness is it's even more clear that Bootstrap is a framework for you to build your own sites faster, and it's up to you to really customize it for your brand.

Happy to see even though the removal temporary, they are looking into a way to easily remove styles for those who enjoy the flatness.

This goes even further than the flat/gradients debate and will also be useful for people who'd like to deeply customize bootstrap.

Customizing Bootstrap has always been a pain (and I'm not the only one to think this, in the words of @mdo : those who want to use Bootstrap as a bootstrap kind of get the short end of the stick), I'm very happy to see that they're looking to make this easier.

This was the first time I've seen 3.0 and I really love the flat clean look. I skimmed through the linked page but couldn't find a specific statement about what they're going to be doing with this.

Would be cool if the gradients and 'shiny' stuff was in a separate file so it could easily be removed for those who want a flatter look. In 2 it's scattered around the codebase.

So glad I saw this. Thanks for posting that. I would have been very sad if they went flat.