[chrisfinazzo]

> You can't make up a rule that doesn't exist. Either your CSS will work or it won't. And if it works it's not wrong.

So much this. Over the course of years, I've gone from writing my CV in Word, TeX, and (finally) straight HTML. Word processors are fairly straightforward -- and yet -- for more complex layouts you will eventually encounter internal sizing constraints that require messing with the global template.

This reality - combined with the fact that MS Office is a gigantic monster which is barely tolerable on macOS, led me to TeX. Plaintext -- more or less -- and good support for integrating with version control systems made it an easy choice.

Fast forward a few years and I'm all HTML + a handful of CSS rules w/ @print at this point. Cryptic error messages and the care and feeding of a BasicTex install just became too much work to bother with. At least in HTML, save for a showstopping error, your document will render something and the errors are usually pretty obvious.

Not so much in TeX...

Modern layout also meant I could ditch floats for nearly everything - flexbox will create reasonable page headers with much less gnashing of teeth.