On a theorical point of view I agree with you. In practice there's a world of difference in presentation if you use the semantics for a select box or roll your

On a theorical point of view I agree with you. In practice there's a world of difference in presentation if you use the semantics for a select box or roll your own solution. In a way I am very intersted in what Google is doing with the material UI. They seem to be ditching native components to reimplement everything. Basic css is simple and fun. It gets hairy when you try anything mildly complex, and you start to learn magic spells when playing the "I made this screen in Photoshop, make it pixel with pixel perfect fidelity in HTML" game.