> Don't you dare to compare SQL and CSS. SQL is not a cobbled together mess of incremental updates with 5 imperfect ways of achieving common tasks that interact in weird ways.

Reminds me a little bit of Sascha Baron Cohen's democracy speech [1] in The Dictator ;-)

Both SQL and CSS have evolved through different versions and vendor specific flavors, and have accumulated warts and different ways to do the same thing. Both feel like a superpower once you have mastered them, but painful to get anything done while learning due to the steep learning curve.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSiCEx3e-0