CSS could be redeemable if; the box model defaulted to box-sizing: border-box;. If vertical-align and margin: auto (or variants) worked with variable heights an

CSS could be redeemable if; the box model defaulted to box-sizing: border-box;. If vertical-align and margin: auto (or variants) worked with variable heights and widths, and on all elements. If percentages of heights worked inside all elements. It seems like flex-box fixes a lot of this, but at the same time, it could be so much easier. You're right though. CSS would be so much different and so much more gloriously painless to use. I can even imagine a better styling engine allowing for applications like macaw, dreamweaver to actually generate properly good CSS and thus building sites with a GUI would finally be plausible.