My hunch is that you strove for making the First Comment considering that the point of this project is exactly what you said it isn't.
https://www.reahl.org/layout, for instance, talks about how styling works.
Taking this further, here's a comment from one of the maintainers on the relevant Google Group:
> Hello.
> We want casual users of Reahl to be shielded from complexities such as client side scripting and CSS.
> HOWEVER, if you are prepared to move to the next level of learning you can build your own Widgets. When you build your own Widget you can do anything you like - using techniques tutorial.pagerbootstraptutorial.pagerbootstrap that you would have used with a traditional framework.
Hopefully this answers your question.