My hypothesis is that unlike other mediums like paper or video, the elastic nature of the web makes understanding the positioning paradigms/box model/etc a necessity that no visual tool can really abstract. By the time you understand all that, it's just faster to write and maintain code.
Ultimately we didn't get all the way there, which is part of why we closed up shop
Showcase:
Demos:
Feel free to hit me up if you want to know more.
They're just not popular with the HN crowd.
It's not a dealbreaker for most businesses but when you're competing on SEO, these little things matter
1. They tend to produce output that is not ideal to work with using another program (e.g. your editor of choice).
2. When you make changes to the output, the WYSIWYG editor might not understand it. This very much depends on what is changed, how, etc, but it could be a problem.
Both essentially force you to use the same software, and I think that scares people away (rightfully so I'd say).