If you've been doing web dev from the go, you surely remember Front Page and Dreamweaver. Both built the code from the Adobe Photoshop layers. Completely no-code (perhaps b/c gathering user data from web forms was not done just yet, the web was uni-directional publishing).

Eventhough we had these tools I still preferred to code from scratch, simply I could not stand the output code, it was messy, full of unused stuff, excesively commented, etc.

I like to look under the hood and understand what's going on. This is not for me.