> The bad part of this is the disappearance of WYSIWYG editors for HTML. You weren't supposed to write this stuff by hand.
It really doesn't matter what you were "supposed" to do with HTML. It's become something entirely different than what was originally intended.
When Tim Berners-Lee was at CERN he really just needed a way to link research papers to one another when, for instance, one cited another. His creation of the 'Web' referred to a web of mostly static documents. Nothing like the interactive applications we have today.
The fact that no WYSIWYG editor can keep up with the latest front-end application design trends is no surprise. (Would you expect a WYSIWYG editor for your iOS app?)