I had the exact same feeling when I first looked over HTML5 Boilerplate. The HTML itself isn't so exotic. But my eyes glaze over paging through all the CSS & J

I had the exact same feeling when I first looked over HTML5 Boilerplate. The HTML itself isn't so exotic. But my eyes glaze over paging through all the CSS & JS. And then there's the .htaccess -- all sorts of black magic in there. Very useful as a reference for different issues, but there's no way I'm going to start with all of that baggage before a single line of original code. It feels over-engineered to cover every possible corner case.