[legitster]

> I work with a team that has accumulated a lot of CSS experience. Generally I don't think there is anything they cannot handle. So I jumped on a couple calls to work through the issue. They were just as confused as I was. The page in question had a lot of moving parts.

Not to say CSS isn't hard, but they encountered a pretty basic problem in CSS. I'm baffled that it took them multiple meetings to come to such a janky fix. Why they couldn't just open up DevTools and troubleshoot it?

In my experience, front-end engineering has gotten so easy the last few years that there's now a whole generation of quite adept programmers that also manage to have very limited understanding of basic webdev concepts. I can't tell you how many times I have been told "we don't need a CSS framework - we're using React!" only to be dragged into a meeting to explain to how to clear floats.

All this to say, if you are doing any amount of front-end engineering, it probably pays to have some old-timer who remembers how to build webapps before flexbox was a thing.

[yakshaving_jgt]

Ouch. I just realised I am old.