There were a lot of grid base frameworks which did this. Foundation 5 was unique in that it still used these rows, but you uses scss to assign those attributes

There were a lot of grid base frameworks which did this. Foundation 5 was unique in that it still used these rows, but you uses scss to assign those attributes to your elements. Your pre-compiled CSS looked clean and your HTML looked clean and your final CSS was a minified blob of crap you tried not to thing about. Really CSS Grid does the same thing; there's just more in CSS now and it's a whole lot cleaner.