The key reason why you (and likely most developers) struggle with CSS, is that you underestimate it.
Underestimating CSS leads to a strange feeling of tediousness when writing it, that makes having to deal with it a laborious and seemingly unrewarding task.
Style by style, div by div, media query by media query. Having to make endless small tweaks in what feels like an open-ended ‘design’ process with no direction at all can feel like torture to a development-oriented mind.
Not to mention a complete lack of debugging tools and methods, available for when things go wrong.
This underestimation of CSS is a subset of a problem that we developers tend to have with design in general.
In short, we don’t think it’s that important. We don’t understand or appreciate its meaning…
https://planflow.dev/blog/how-to-get-better-at-css
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