From the article: "The standardization bodies have probably had their reasons, but it doesn’t feel at all intuitive to have the CSS width and height of an eleme

From the article: "The standardization bodies have probably had their reasons, but it doesn’t feel at all intuitive to have the CSS width and height of an element affected by its padding and borders." And not only are height and width affected by padding+borders, they are affected in different ways, respectively. It's just weird. Does anybody have any insight into what the standardization bodies' reasons were?