I agree a lot with the post, but using a WYSIWYG editor isn't really writing HTML is it? You can write HTML in your text editor, get piecemeal automation as you

I agree a lot with the post, but using a WYSIWYG editor isn't really writing HTML is it? You can write HTML in your text editor, get piecemeal automation as you go such as sharing a common site menu or other boilerplate via text variable substitution, generate a table-of-content as page nav menu, validate your HTML, use markdown, support user comments, all the way up to using templated lists and forms for databases if you wanted to using pure SGML.