" The underlying assumption that you can change the visuals without major surgery to the HTML is basically never true," I would disagree. I think an amazing am

" The underlying assumption that you can change the visuals without major surgery to the HTML is basically never true," I would disagree. I think an amazing amount can be done with CSS alone, but developers never take the time to really leverage the power of CSS. I think perhaps it's worth making a distinction between web app development, and content, (e.g. marketing, articles, weblogs, personal websites). While there is often crossover between the two I think that CSS was originally designed for styling content, which was the primary use of the web at the time. It fits less well at styling complex interactive component based web applications.