When working on a web project where I have no designer I inevitably get sucked into hours of painfully tweaking CSS. The biggest pain points is that CSS is not

When working on a web project where I have no designer I inevitably get sucked into hours of painfully tweaking CSS. The biggest pain points is that CSS is not programatic and feels very restrictive(it's a declarative non-turing-complete language); Nor is it concise.