I understand this feeling of CSS being some kind of black magic or something that just doesn't play by the rules. At almost every single place I work it feels l

I understand this feeling of CSS being some kind of black magic or something that just doesn't play by the rules. At almost every single place I work it feels like I am the only one who has a real grasp on CSS and makes stuff happen. My personal advice is to take a website you are familar with and try and duplicate it with pure css and html. When you get good at simply writing it from scratch then you'll be able to understand it easily. You'll start to notice the red flag stuff, the useless UI libraries (useful is relative) and stuff that you could get done on your own easily. My most important tool is the element inspector for any browser that isn't displaying as I expect it to.