everyone thinks they are a master of modern web design just bc they can drop
display: grid
into a stylesheet and call it a day. we are seeing an alarming trend where complex, accessible layouts are being built w/ massive, nested grids that are a total nightmare to maintain. it is much harder to debug a deep hierarchy of implicit tracks than it is to manage a few well-placed flex containers. using grid for everything makes the code
unnecessarily heavy and obscures the actual content flow.
>the simplicity of flexbox is being sacrificed for the convenience of grid auto-placementwe should be moving back toward a more intentional way of structuring components instead of relying on
giant, unreadable grids that break as soon as you add one extra item . it is easy to get lost in properties like
grid-template-areas
when the underlying semantic structure is broken. stop treating grid as a magic wand for every single alignment issue ⚠ if we keep this up, our stylesheets will just become unmanageable webs of overlapping tracks. learning when to use
display: flex
for one-dimensional items is still a
vital skill that many are skipping over.