i would be a lot more sympathetic to all the "don't use tables for markup" people if css had, in all the years of its existence, said "you know what? grids and

i would be a lot more sympathetic to all the "don't use tables for markup" people if css had, in all the years of its existence, said "you know what? grids and boxes are a really handy layout tool!" and made them easier to do. spans and flows simply don't cut it. the fact that there are css grid frameworks is ample evidence that people are viewing css's "right way to do things" as damage and routing around it.