Knowing a little HTML and CSS doesn't fix those problems for most people, it makes it worse. You can't fix bad taste, and half-finished websites with little content is not an HTML or CSS issue. Also, a lot of web designers now do little more than configure site-builders for people who can't turn on a computer, and bill a couple thousand dollars. After a designer is finished with it, it still needs to be easily maintained and updated, and nobody is going to go through the trouble of coding a content management system from scratch for a webpage designed to host static information.

The developers which can actually build a working full-stack website from scratch are far outside of the budget of most people, and for a generic webpage the difference between that and a modestly competent drag and drop website is not going to be noticeable to 80% of visitors.

they're left with whatever boring crap they get out of the box

The alternative to cookie-cutter design is mySpace 2004. Idk if you're old enough to remember those days, but most people have no business exercising their creative aesthetics when it comes to making a webpage. The amount I despise bootstrap cannot be measured, but I'd rather most people have boring websites than obnoxious ones.

Knowing a little HTML and CSS doesn't fix those problems for most people, it makes it worse. You can't fix bad taste, and half-finished websites with little content is not an HTML or CSS issue. Also, a lot of web designers now do little more than configure site-builders for people who can't turn on a computer, and bill a couple thousand dollars. After a designer is finished with it, it still needs to be easily maintained and updated, and nobody is going to go through the trouble of coding a content management system from scratch for a webpage designed to host static information.

The developers which can actually build a working full-stack website from scratch are far outside of the budget of most people, and for a generic webpage the difference between that and a modestly competent drag and drop website is not going to be noticeable to 80% of visitors.

they're left with whatever boring crap they get out of the box

The alternative to cookie-cutter design is mySpace 2004. Idk if you're old enough to remember those days, but most people have no business exercising their creative aesthetics when it comes to making a webpage. The amount I despise bootstrap cannot be measured, but I'd rather most people have boring websites than broken ones.

Knowing a little HTML and CSS doesn't fix those problems for most people, it makes it worse. You can't fix bad taste, and half-finished websites with little content is not an HTML or CSS issue. Also, a lot of web designers now do little more than configure site-builders for people who can't turn on a computer, and bill a couple thousand dollars. After a designer is finished with it, it still needs to be easily maintained and updated, and nobody is going to go through the trouble of coding a content management system from scratch for a webpage designed to host static information.

The developers which can actually build a working full-stack website from scratch are far outside of the budget of most people, and for a generic webpage the difference between that and a modestly competent drag and drop website is not going to be noticeable to 80% of visitors.

they're left with whatever boring crap they get out of the box

The alternative to cookie-cutter design is mySpace 2004. Idk if you're old enough to remember those days, but most people have no business exercising their creative aesthetics when it comes to making a webpage.

Knowing a little HTML and CSS doesn't fix those problems for most people, it makes it worse. You can't fix bad taste, and half-finished websites with little content is not an HTML or CSS issue. Also, a lot of web designers now do little more than configure site-builders for people who can't turn on a computer, and bill a couple thousand dollars. After a designer is finished with it, it still needs to be easily maintained and updated, and nobody is going to go through the trouble of coding a content management system from scratch for a webpage designed to host static information.

The developers which can actually build a working full-stack website from scratch are far outside of the budget of most people, and for a generic webpage the difference between that and a modestly competent drag and drop website is not going to be noticeable to 80% of visitors.