In human history we always went through development loops. And I can tell you this: I was there when there was not much CSS, and certainly no preprocessors. CSS was the Next Big Thing on the table (not even 10 years ago, and div was the next big thing instead of table). There are reasons for CSS. Now that it's everywhere young people think it sucks. Because old code always sucks. But often it's not the technology that sucks. It's just that code bloats when it gets older. Now when we take CSS away we'll do that for 5 years and then we'll miss it, so we reintroduce it, maybe using another name, or a competing technology from back then that didn't make it. Both will happen, I'm quite sure of it. Just for you, dear reader, if you want to be the cool guy that knows the technology before the other kids know it, start doing CSS now and wait 5-10 years. The last thing I remember we've seen such a loop was SQL. Now they are slowly reintroducing it. So if you stayed with MySQL and Postgres over the last 5-10 years, you'll probably earn a lot of money now. Good luck.