I think part of the issue stems from html being seen as the boring and needed stepping stone to the “fun stuff” and people writing it off as “not a programming

I think part of the issue stems from html being seen as the boring and needed stepping stone to the “fun stuff” and people writing it off as “not a programming language” When people realise how much functionality you can get for free using semantic tags they get right on board and start seeing html as a tool rather than simply labels that some pedant insists can’t all just be divs.