Previously, we were able to clone the entirety of a HubSpot marketplace theme (including all subfolders) with one button ("Clone Theme"). This was recently updated to "Create A Child Theme" functionality. Now, we have to manually clone each folder under the original marketplace asset to our "child theme."
The idea of cloning an entire theme is quite terrifying from a theme developer perspective - it is best for most customers to have the child theme set up and run their site from the child, making any modifications/customizations as needed from there, but a clone completely detaches from the parent and makes it impossible to apply bugfixes, receive updates, etc.
Everything you clone to the child theme is then overriding the parent, so you would no longer be able to accept updates from the marketplace theme. The only time you have to clone the elements from the parent to the child is if you are customizing it.
Sorry, not a fan of this idea, we run into so many issues when customers build their site from the marketplace theme without first making a child theme, and also have customers who built their theme using a clone before HubSpot implemented child themes and are disappointed they can't get the updates without rebuilding their entire website.
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