To be fair though, I should also say that nowadays the CSS working group has a lot of very smart people who absolutely understand the needs of web developers/de

To be fair though, I should also say that nowadays the CSS working group has a lot of very smart people who absolutely understand the needs of web developers/designers, and have been tireless in getting things like Flexbox specced and implemented across different browsers. CSS is about a decade behind where it should be, but that's not the fault of the people working on it now. And I think its future is actually comparatively bright, especially with the Houdini project taking off.