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>Just use flexbox!

Which is great, except it isn't supported at all by IE8 or 9 and is only partially supported in IE10 (by prefix only). Which means a lot of people simply can't use it. I'm hesitant to use it myself, and I've got a very lax policy on supporting old IE.

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My company recently went all in with flexbox, and you should too. We had the same concerns, but even IE 9 is 4 years old at this point, and we decided we shouldn't be held back because of it. If a client wants IE9 support, they can pay extra.

I have run into a few IE10 gotchas, but they're all solvable. IE10 just uses an older version of the spec.

and IE itself will be cut loose from MSFT in a few months.

It's a business decision to limit forward progress to support browsers 3-4 major versions behind. One that multi-billion dollar companies like Google have decided isn't worth it.

"A lot of people" = 4% on IE 8 & 9 (http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php)

Really depends on the business and their clients. If you've got a lot of corporate clients stuck on IE8/9, why disenfranchise them? Although I will say this has me re-considering flex.

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