Comment by alwillis

Using CSS Grid, which we just got in 2017, is so much easier than using floats and tables. These layouts were also very fragile.

Part of the problem is once people get used to doing something a particular way, they don’t want to change.

I looked at a friend’s website the other day and it’s using a table-based layout and it wasn’t even that old!

Nothing can be removed from CSS because sites from the 90’s and the early 2000’s still have to work in today’s browsers.

The good news is most greenfield projects can use floats and tables in the way they were intended, which wasn’t ever layout.