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Absolutely. I remember how it was to make your website work in IE6 and later in IE7's Frankenstein compatibility mode.

All those dirty hacks you needed to do to make stuff work make me so thankful for today's wonderful CSS, even when it frustrates me.

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After fighting years against IE6¹, when IE7 came bantering in with its Compatibilty Mode, I gave up and moved to backend work. Spending weekend-allnighters to get this one rounded-corner-drop-shadow working is depressing.

¹ a real-life lesson in monopolism: IE6 was around for over 14 years!

Stuff like 99% support flexbox and high % for grid makes working with layout so good.

Only wish "gap" property would be adopted easier to make working collapsing flex rows way easier.

Even the basic things like :last-child selector is good quality-of-life improvement.

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