[jimminy]

There used to be a decent standard with (x)HTML 4.1, and the commonly followed process of designing with progressive-enhancement.

HTML 5 added the semantic tags, which are great, but there is less clear decisions for deciding section/article/div that the prior selection of just using div. There are other cases where it has introduced more confusion into the process where the semantics aren't straightforward to determine.

And progressive-enhancement is pretty much forgotten anymore. All the Javascript frameworks and pushing to work on the cutting edge of what's available, have forced a huge portion of effort to be spent on graceful-degradation instead. And working at the edge means that everyone is already working off any adopted standard, and just shimming everything to do what they want.

The front-end development out there is just kind of dumb at the moment in those regards.