I do both native development for windows and web development, and believe me, I'll take HTML/CSS/JS any day. IMO, the box model is extremely conducive to pushin

I do both native development for windows and web development, and believe me, I'll take HTML/CSS/JS any day. IMO, the box model is extremely conducive to pushing you in the right direction for a clean layout, and maybe CSS is unwieldy because you shouldn't be using that many styles; i.e. it was meant to make coming up with a unique style for each button on your site a burden. I did web development as a kid using tables back when that was the way good looking sites were made, and believe me, this model is better, not because of what it enables, but because of what it inhibits.