Comment by unclebucknasty

Exactly. It's the frameworks driving the abuse.

I actually think CSS is the wrong tool for modern webdev. Or rather, it should be the output of a compile process instead of something that designers and developers wrestle with.

In general, we're building these complex SPAs, and still working directly in standards that were intended for a static document model. Part of the reason is we somehow believe we need infinite customizability, so for that we're writing in Assembly.

But, the truth is that user interfaces are largely consistent and should be. Still, even if we did want maximal customizability, we should use tooling that generates the CSS, etc.

And that tooling should be visual. I mean think about the fact that we're trying to hand code visual designs with text. Or that it was so accepted that we're only recently trying to generate the code from design tools like Figma, which is still imperfect.

So many thousands of developer hours lost to this effort. Bass-ackwards to be sure.