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I asked this same question a few months ago and got all of the same answers.

It's frustrating. When everything else we work with has modules and plugins, you would think CSS would be no exception.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341274

I would love to take part in a project like this if I had a few partners.

If you use Compass to manage all of your CSS stuff it _is_ all modules and plugins. Write your CSS using SCSS or SASS. A large variety of really good quality premade mixins, frameworks and snippets are available, and the rest you can build yourself and create reusable libraries of code. Solve a CSS problem _once_. It's a joy to work with and makes CSS fun again. I get really grumpy when I have to handcode CSS now, it seems rather quaint and primitive.

I've played with Compass/Less/Sass before and got turned off by the preprocessors. They all just gave me a bit more than I bargained for. But I hadn't realized that the plugin/mixin support had grown so much.

I'll keep this in mind while working on my next few projects.

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