No, nothing subtle about it. FFF is generally our own personal Shatner screaming "GET A LIFE", but he is informative.

Anyway, I wouldn't even mind the theme trades if there were a few more of them, or at least more pages in 'em. They're down to, what, 160 pages now?

I mean, I loved the decade collections for Superman and Batman... I'd love to see GL, Flash or maybe the JLA get their own collections like that.

As has been said, Chronicles are around only because they've been prepped and reprinted in Archives first, so I don't see anything not in Archives being chronicled. But the theme collections do get us material not otherwise collected, so I'd rather see those than nothing.