[crispyambulance]

> ...in the Bootstrap era you would look at my HTML and see "row" and "col-sm-3" and know exactly what I was going for visually.

Part of the blame for this has to fall onto the lap of CSS itself.

Up until CSS-grid it has been too damn hard to get layout to "just freaking work" with CSS.

To be fair, it was even more of a dumpster fire back in the early naughts when almost everyone just used HTML tables to do their layouts. The folks behind CSS should have caught on at that time and focused on making layout better and eliminate thousands of person-years of frontend people grinding their gears... BUT NO, not until 2018-ish did we get CSS-grid.

[pjmlp]

And ironically CSS-grid was born as part of WPF's Grid component.

[crispyambulance]

Not surprising at all. The desktop application world has long enjoyed relatively fuss-free layouts. Java swing had nice layout mechanisms too. MIG-layout comes to mind.