[weo3dev]

"Nothing seems to have materialized..." --> https://nordhealth.design/ -- these are all custom components. And here is D. Darnes explaining in part how they get things done: https://web.dev/custom-properties-web-components/

CSS is scalable. You have to actually know CSS in order to accomplish it. I've been here since mid-90s, when CSS first existed. It isn't until the past four or five years that things have really blossomed into (imho) what it should have been from the outset.

Unfortunately, since we have had to use filler tools for things like layout (tables, hacked flexbox for grid), CSS itself has taken a beating in perceived usefulness/weildability. I believe because of THAT, fewer and fewer people have decided to actually learn CSS.

CSS is a robust language. It is programmable. It is scalable. You just have to learn it, practice it, and approach problem solving from the top down, bottom up, and sometimes sideways. :-)

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Well, CSS have enough problems to probably suggest it failed.

It can work, but it failed for massive amount of people, it doesn't make it a successful paradigm.