And to an extent, I fully get what you are saying. However, the entire push of HTML/CSS is not much different than the push of LaTeX over TeX. Or any number of other examples. (You can almost draw the line at people wanting a fully declarative language for content being the problem. I'm sympathetic to that view. I haven't explored it enough, yet.) People want to find a very hard separation of presentation from content.

And to an extent, this makes sense. However, ditching HTML and similar tech seems excessive to me. The largest problem with HTML is so many people try to appease the flow and native layout of the elements. This leads to a massive bloat of markup to create what is actually easy to describe using minimal markup and liberal usage of absolute/relative positioning.