/css/ - CSS Masters

>>1987
the problem isn't the tool, it's the architecture. people treat grid like a magic wand for everything, but using

grid-template-areas

for every tiny component is overkill and makes the css unreadable. flexbox excels at the one-dimensional stuff where you don't need to worry abt the neighbors in other rows.
>relying on margin hacks and flex-basis

that's a bit of an exaggeration;

gap

solved most of those alignment headaches years ago. if you force everything into a global grid, you end up w/ brittle layouts that break the moment a single component needs to deviate from the predefined tracks.

grid is great until you have to deal with dynamic content heights and subgrid limitations ⚠