[tinkertamper]

“The HTML is totally wrong and exceedingly verbose” is not exactly something someone who used frontpage cared about.

[nkozyra]

Well, from my experience there were professional teams using these sorts of tools at the time.

My first gig was hand crafting html pages and the guy I replaced (a "programmer") used one of these WYSIWYG tools.

It wasn't that uncommon in the early days of web shops