I've got exactly the opposite opinion: of JS/HTML/CSS, CSS is y far the best standard. People complain because it doesn't address their specific needs explicit

I've got exactly the opposite opinion: of JS/HTML/CSS, CSS is y far the best standard. People complain because it doesn't address their specific needs explicitly (e.g. vertical centering) - but that way lies madness; a huge spec that caters for every case explictly, and probably has lots of corner cases and interactions meaning that cross-browser support would be even harder than now. CSS is limited - and that's a good thing. Would you want to implement complex layout in JS, say? And how that would look when window size changes, or the page is zoomed, or some font isn't available? The declarative nature of CSS is what makes it work; and the key aspect of declarative here is that it represents a state, not an algorithm - it's not turing complete. You'll never be able to do everything in CSS; and that's by design.