Why does CSS keep getting more complex?

[@darter1990]

The problem is not in the anwer "it depends"; the problem is in the result question: "when it depends?" A problem that I experimented in Front-end, Kevin, is that no one is deep diving into the use cases necessary for understading how, and when use all these different solution; this, creates stagnation in the knowledge base of the way of duing thing, and consequentially you will never know when "it depends", since even Senior Devs are not going to build an experience. This is a nice rope to unravel.

[@Bunqers]

I always thought he said 'Hello my friend and friends'...

[@TheOnly_1Lius]

Nahh😅

[@techyjc]

I think having a multiple ways to do thing offers flexibility. Maybe what is needed is a collection of best practices and examples. For those you use a product or language constantly they tend to know what works best in most cases. Then again, I guess because CSS is constantly changing, so best practice is constantly evolving.

[@radnan47]

CSS unfortunately just doesn’t have the best fundamentals necessary for all our current use cases. And trying to tack on all these use cases is naturally going to complicate the language further and further. What’s best would be if we could just scrap it and start from scratch with a completely different mental model - but alas that is no longer possible - so we’re stuck with this for ever. Like we had media queries for responsive design - now we have container queries. We might get container style queries - but there’s also talk of `if` statements for conditional properties. We had specificity bs - and now we have layers. lol it just never ends

[@b1mind]

Honestly it's a lot, but also the best time to be a frontend developer imo.

[@bevik12]

Most likely a lot of developer will end up using some design systems like Tailwind or Material so I guess just less things to worry about it.

[@Ahmed-fq3kz]

Sure. but if you want to make something more creative than usual work, you will need what he is talking about.

[@b1mind]

Tailwind alone is NOT a design system.

[@scpresearcherssite1054]

I fucking hate css