With the discussion in #131 which brought up a point about sub-themes, I decided it was a good time to point out that parent and sub-themes have never had a good UX feeling because the UI was never designed to incorporate them.
Proposed solution
What I propose is to slightly re-design the theme overview page and move the title of each theme into a "group" heading to allow a theme with sub-themes to all be housed together.
Mockup Example:

Draft of feature description for Press Release (1 paragraph at most)
The Backdrop theme overview page has been tweaked to group sub-themes together with their parent themes to create a better UI experience.
Recent comments
Thanks, the /tmp folder was the problem. I moved it elsewhere and then the updated worked. Thanks again!
Update 1.35.1 appears to install but hasn't
Probably not the reason, but worth to do a quick check: Sometimes the update cache interferes, so if something's odd with updates - some module (or core) claims to have updated, but then...
Update 1.35.1 appears to install but hasn't
Nope, not touched any permissions!
Update 1.35.1 appears to install but hasn't