Right, but flexbox is fairly new. CSS sucked because it made the most common things people want to do really really difficult. Most people gave up and went back

Right, but flexbox is fairly new. CSS sucked because it made the most common things people want to do really really difficult. Most people gave up and went back to tables because tables give you an understandable grid layout with trivial effort. CSS is just now starting to make the most common layouts easier.