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I’ve seen this issue at many “engineering” focused companies where many people write their own DSLs. for CSS in particular there are many people who just hate it and come up with many ways to not write it.

CSS however is very much like drawing rather than engineering. Some aspects are just not scalable. You can draw many things in vector by conbining shapes for example but a pen or pencil is still very necessary for many parts of both exploratory creation as well as something polished.

The same goes for HTML and Javascript to an extent. While it’s great to build railroad tracks, you can’t take a train everywhere... any abstraction has to also have the ability to easily break out of it to handle edge cases. Clean and Pure abstractions almost never have the grittiness necessary to reflect a fractally complex problem.