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>I can make flat DIVs myself, thank you very much.

What about the scaffolding, the grid system and sane typographic rhythm? What about the glyphicons and out of the box mobile awesomeness?

Bootstrap is more than 3D buttons and box shadows, perhaps they are moving away from that to focus on the utilities that make the framework great, and not for the shiny buttons.

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You're right, but I never use the grid stuff anyway; I only want to invest time in learning about something if it's not framework/vendor-locked, so to speak, so I'd rather just use the elements and do the scaffolding myself.

Glyphicons are probably my favorite part, though.

If you literally only want the buttons, then you should use something like this: http://blog.koalite.com/bbg/ to create the css for your buttons and avoid a whole lot of overhead including the entire framework's css just to get the buttons.

Good to know. I'm seriously considering some ways to cut down on the overhead, so this is great.

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