[taeric]

CSS is easy to hate on, if only because of how much easier form builders were with VBA and such. Flash was also amazing, for content creation.

But I don't want to belabor examples. Fitting everything to the DOM is probably a worse part of the problem. Especially with how people insist on trying to rube Goldberg the layout on the regular behavior, which is clearly for a much more linear document. (Incidentally, no complaints on it to represent a document...)

Then you try to make things stateless for the HTTP nature. As well as largely pretending that the URLs are file system paths.

Both of those land you with frameworks on the frontend that are easy to complain about. We then add to the pain by trying to use the same framework for native.