As a full stack that is mostly backend, I like the way CSS frameworks allow me to not have to worry too much about design. I originally used CSS "properly" but

As a full stack that is mostly backend, I like the way CSS frameworks allow me to not have to worry too much about design. I originally used CSS "properly" but I found that it was a chore/pain basically recreating these CSS frameworks over and over. It can get messy pretty fast but I find once you sorta get a handle on the frameworks, it becomes easy to parse as long as people aren't doing 10+ classes per element. I've found working without a CSS framework, people will tend to re-invent the wheel 100 times. i.e. I've seen "padded-box" and "box-with-padding" classes. I experience the worst of the worst tho, as I do a lot of refactoring work, so my take is a bit bias haha.