>The amount of cargo culting going on right now is at an all time high.
In fairness, CSS is such a mishmash of things that it lends itself to cargo-culting.
You can fit the number of people who are exclusively CSS experts in a van and still have room for their luggage. Everybody else is going "that's cool, how do I do that?" and then copy/pasting it.
I mean, hell, it was years before you could reliably vertically center stuff with CSS (that we were doing with table-based layouts since the 90s). And considering the number of wonky layouts I've seen in what should be professionally done mobile Web sites, it's clear that it's hardly a Done Thing.
The nerd in me really likes SCSS, because I can more or less wrap my mind around it, but I get the Tailwind way as well. As a developer, CSS is way down my list of things to know intimately. Whatever I have to do to keep things moving, I'm good with it.
In fairness, CSS is such a mishmash of things that it lends itself to cargo-culting.
You can fit the number of people who are exclusively CSS experts in a van and still have room for their luggage. Everybody else is going "that's cool, how do I do that?" and then copy/pasting it.
I mean, hell, it was years before you could reliably vertically center stuff with CSS (that we were doing with table-based layouts since the 90s). And considering the number of wonky layouts I've seen in what should be professionally done mobile Web sites, it's clear that it's hardly a Done Thing.
The nerd in me really likes SCSS, because I can more or less wrap my mind around it, but I get the Tailwind way as well. As a developer, CSS is way down my list of things to know intimately. Whatever I have to do to keep things moving, I'm good with it.