> if you honestly want to customize the core, it's going to be just as much trouble as writing your own styles I agree, and if I were approaching a project whe

> if you honestly want to customize the core, it's going to be just as much trouble as writing your own styles I agree, and if I were approaching a project where I knew I'd be charged with significant customization, I'd probably choose to use Compass to code my own design patterns. That said, many, many projects don't fit that bill, and I think Bootstrap is just the first in in a series of tools that will offer beginner/intermediate developers an accelerated path to a design 'that doesn't suck'. The need for such tools is obviously greater than many imagined.