That's the issue. The CSS pushers did not have any ways of solving the CSS issues. All that "inspiration" resulted in a loss of scalable interfaces and a switc

That's the issue. The CSS pushers did not have any ways of solving the CSS issues. All that "inspiration" resulted in a loss of scalable interfaces and a switch to hard-coded element dimensions. And this persisted for a LONG time because Web UI designers are, in general, bad and were fine with flashy UI that is finger-breakingly bad. Heck, it's _still_ a problem because people are by now completely oblivious to that. The art of automatic UI layout has been lost completely.