Right, I'm not extolling the virtues of CSS/HTML from a technical standpoint (though they actually do quite well, given the problem space - they are unfairly ma

Right, I'm not extolling the virtues of CSS/HTML from a technical standpoint (though they actually do quite well, given the problem space - they are unfairly maligned). It's more about how they separate out the ideas conceptually - document structual markup + document layout styling. LaTeX kind of does this in how most people use it but it bundles the ideas together which makes it very hard to reason about and complicates the space. > You seem to be claiming that this is not fixable Not at all! I'm saying it's not there yet and progress on that GUI/Inspector/software has been hampered by the above conceptual problems due to the design of the language. They are solvable, of course, but LaTeX seems to go out of its way to make it harder to solve.