This is all well and good but front end devs often don’t code semantically because frequently the designs we are asked to build aren’t idiomatic to the web. It’

This is all well and good but front end devs often don’t code semantically because frequently the designs we are asked to build aren’t idiomatic to the web. It’s less about wanting to use a div and more about not being able to style a frigging select box easily in a cross browser way (or add more advanced things like multi select and what have you... In other words, our first concern is making things easy to change. The semantic web (at least some of it) just isn’t there yet. I’ll finish by saying, that there are certain semantic elements that are safe to use. In that case, by all means.