Yes CSS is too damn hard. Too hard to learn? No. Too hard to use? No. Too hard to do elegantly? No. It's too hard because it doesn't need to be nearly as hard

Yes CSS is too damn hard. Too hard to learn? No. Too hard to use? No. Too hard to do elegantly? No. It's too hard because it doesn't need to be nearly as hard as it is. Advanced layout can be done using techniques like pivot, relative anchoring and alignment, and lots of other approaches that CSS lacks. It's too hard because what is there is broken. Even the new stuff (try to select a row in an auto-adjusting grid. You can't yet, and the powers that be will eventually fix that... which is ridiculous for a modern release) It's too hard because it's neither how designers think, nor how programmers think, nor how users think. So you need to write it in some weird hodgepodge that accounts for none of those and all of those. It's also too hard because due to the difficulty it takes a lot of time to get good at, and so we as non-CSS gurus don't invest the time we need to digest it... because why would we when it shouldn't require that sort of investment? At the end of the day it's almost like going to your neighbor's house but some committee forces you to walk in zigzags and on your hands. It'll get you there, and you will become so good in the process you could work in a circus, but it's an unnecessary pain when you just want to drop off a cup of milk.