If you have the liberty to limit your team to a subset of modern CSS features that have predictable behavior and patterns of applying styles (like never putting

If you have the liberty to limit your team to a subset of modern CSS features that have predictable behavior and patterns of applying styles (like never putting margins directly on a component, always spacing things from the parent; along with a laundry list of other conventions); and your site is designed to not do weird painful stuff (eg masonry layouts, though that should become a native CSS thing soon!) then I find it’s pretty predictable to do 95% of layouts, and only the weird outliers require special sauce. But then again I do a B2B SaaS that doesn’t need to look shockingly sexy, with lots of standard CRUD dashboards so maybe our use case is light on weird CSS tricks required.