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I don't understand why people use css frameworks. This stylesheet will make your site look like this other site. Cool, but what if I want to make my site look different than other sites? Then I have to override a lot of over specific selectors and make my own CSS even harder to read/write.

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This is for when "shit I just want my website to look good like those other websites I see on the web but I don't know how or don't want to put in too much effort"

CSS frameworks—I hear—are mainly aimed at individuals or small teams with a proof of concept, demos or other quick short lived projects that don’t need custom designs, or for small teams that don’t have a skilled designer and just need the thing to look well enough.

That said I have had to defend non-framework CSS to other front end developers in the wild, who insist that material design, bootstrap or whatever is worth writing all this CSS your self.

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