I tried to remove all Sections by setting # of Sections to 1 and then setting Section 1 to be hidden. I then added a page which I set under reading as the default Home page content.
Lo and behold, all I got was the header and the footer. There was NO ‘main content’ element at all!!!
To be frank, I was stunned.
So how can I bypass the theme Sections and still be able to display a Page as the home content?