[lisper]

Who do you think created CSS? CSS was not handed down on stone tablets by the gods, it was designed by humans, and I presume that at least some of the people who designed CSS actually used it (though to be honest I don't actually know who was on the committee). I don't know if it was their intent to make something Byzantine that served as an effective barrier to entry to doing front-end design, but that was in fact what they did.

[talmand]

Who created CSS as we know it? CERN. More or less.

Who first tested and implemented CSS? Browser programmers.

These days it's under the control of committee. I think I would disagree with the notion that CSS devs are the ones to blame in this case. Sure, there's lots of blame to share for the problems. To imply that CSS developers intentionally forced it to be complicated for purposes of job security is laughable.

After all, CSS is not C++.

[lisper]

I didn't say that was their intent, only that the current state of the art has that effect. And that I think this is a bad thing.