HTML / CSS ended up being extremely granular and hackable while missing the big building blocks that would have readily matched the structure of the web - thing

HTML / CSS ended up being extremely granular and hackable while missing the big building blocks that would have readily matched the structure of the web - things like navigation menus or page outlines. We waited over a decade for the layout systems to catch up to developer needs while creating buggy float-based grids. It's an outlier that media queries were already in widespread availability when mobile really started picking up.