Why CSS Still Matters When Everyone Is Using Frameworks
Anselm Hannemann points out a blind spot in modern frontend development: developers can write solid React and TypeScript, but often have little idea whether the CSS their toolchain generates is actually any good. With component libraries like MUI and Tailwind handling styling, the stylesheet becomes a black box—applied magically into the HTML while teams struggle to explain why their site gradually slows down.
Alex Russell sees the same problem from a different angle, arguing that the industry's obsession with "frameworkism" has skewed how engineers examine frontend issues. The belief that user problems vanish if teams simply framework harder is, in his words, a non-sequitur—if not entirely backwards. What actually makes web experiences good, he insists, is caring about user experience, especially for people at the margins. Technologies will come and go, but the decisive factor is always whether teams give a toss about the user.
