How could CSS have been better designed?

Answer 1

CSS could have been better designed by making it more modular, consistent, and easier to scale for large projects. Early CSS lacked proper structure for component-based design, strong type safety, and built-in variables (which came much later). A better design would include stronger layout systems from the start (like Flexbox and Grid), scoped styles by default, and more predictable inheritance rules. This would make CSS easier to maintain, reuse, and debug across complex web applications.