CSS Difficulty Debate
Comments debate the inherent complexity, unintuitiveness, and flaws of CSS, contrasting frustrations from developers with calls to master its fundamentals and defenses of its capabilities.
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It's not just you. CSS is bad.
What's wrong with CSS, exactly?
Could you point out specifically what aspects of CSS cause unnecessary pain?
For god's sake, just learn some CSS already.
Maybe one day css will be worth something again
Didn't you just prove CSS was hard?
So much respect for css devs. That stuff makes my head spin
Amazing, the lengths that devs go to not to learn CSS fundamentals.
It's people like you that produce impossible to maintain css...
It's hard to take this seriously when the CSS gets in the way...