Right on. Also worth mentioning in the context of deprecated web-plugins: Flash and Unity which provid(ed) sane wysiwyg layout tools (Unity's 2D stuff, being ba

Right on. Also worth mentioning in the context of deprecated web-plugins: Flash and Unity which provid(ed) sane wysiwyg layout tools (Unity's 2D stuff, being backed by scriptable components, is/was especially powerful and ergonomic) I spent most of my frontend career in that world (and dabbling in Qt, SDL etc. for kicks), and now shifting to the web a couple years ago, it boggles my mind how horrible CSS feels compared to what I used to do with minimal scripting and a bunch of button clicking.