No, but the sprite/graphic implementation was much less tedious when you could use a good GUI to set up all the small bits instead of relying on a mental map of

No, but the sprite/graphic implementation was much less tedious when you could use a good GUI to set up all the small bits instead of relying on a mental map of flex/grid/css to resolve every little padding or margin. I often write 99% of an app now and spend days dealing with single-pixel discrepancies on screens whereas before, the layouts would likely be implemented before the code to swap between them even started being written. You always also had to write code.