The way I see it, some commenters here keep holding on to their 'html is content, css is styling' mantra because, well, all of us old-schoolers have held to that for a long time.

Some of us realized it never really works in practice, and never really made sense in the first place (as many here and in the past have argued). Others decide to hold on to the mantra and feel a need to be arrogant or dismissive to those they disagree with.

I respect fellow front-enders who are happy doing things their way. Not everyone needs Tailwind. But it's frustrating to and honestly somewhat baffling to see a bunch of them dig their heels in the sand and defend their approach by assuming all the rest of us just "don't know CSS". It's a minority, but a vocal one.

When you are asking questions like those on HN of all places there's a decent risk you picked the wrong hill to die on.

Avoid trying to get into a situation where people are just quoting their credentials at each other, playing a game of who will run out things to list first, being none the wiser once they're finally done a decade from now.

In case it wasn't meant the way I believe your comment was meant, you probably still shouldn't judge my comment by whatever I did in the past. If my personal experience was somehow relevant, I would have included references.

It was an honest question. I didn't try to "quote my credentials" or claim that I'm a frontend expert. If anything I meant to say that my frontend experience is limited.

My point was that: in this case the experience might be relevant, because the ideals of traditional HTML/CSS sound good, but don't turn out as great in practice.