> As a whole, modern CSS features feel unintuitive and often require a historical knowledge of the problems this new feature X was trying to solve There's no r

> As a whole, modern CSS features feel unintuitive and often require a historical knowledge of the problems this new feature X was trying to solve There's no real way to debug unexpected behavior short of digging through the W3 spec. For example you can't set height / width on inline elements, but you'll never see any error messages or warnings in devtools / IDEs when you try. It doesn't help that tutorials rarely discuss how "layout algorithms" [0] (block, inline, flex, grid) affect certain rules. [0] - https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorithms/ https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/understanding-layout-algorit...