When Windows Presentation Foundation split layout, styling, and logic into three separate sets of files, it was a huge win for maintainability. I had my share o

When Windows Presentation Foundation split layout, styling, and logic into three separate sets of files, it was a huge win for maintainability. I had my share of complaints about WPF, but it was never that. It was mostly that I wished the rules for how they interacted with each other were easier to understand. I feel the same way about html/css/jss. It's not the fundamental triumvirate that bothers me. And I'm fine with their respective syntaxes. My problem is that the semantics of the whole system is an ever-growing Gordian knot of accidental complexity. But that problem is very nearly unfixable, so I can't really blame anyone for tinkering with more superficial things instead.