[wruza]

Layouting is hard only from a css perspective. We used TFrames and tAligns in delphi, we used (sane!) boxing in gtk, we used apple's constraint system. Entire operating systems and business packs were built exclusively on these for decades. And nothing was as hard as making damn css work on three devices without an explicit role or two to manage that.

Alternative is a king. Leave your css if you like it, but please make it an intermediate layer, not final, and allow more sane primitives on which people could build their ui. People are sick and tired of translating geometric ui layout to allegedly-text layout, when there is not a single character of text until fifteenth level of divs.

Edit: it is not "css as format" that is broken, if that was not clear. Broken is a set of primitives under "display" property.