I think you misunderstood. Never meant the author of the article copy-n-pasted anything. Not the commenter that I "commented" on either. CSS had grown into something a bit too complex for its own good.

kelnos> This seems like a bit much. More than a bit much.

I just said that web-design, either done by programmers with zero design experience, or by designers with zero programming experience lends itself towards copy-n-paste (from different resources online). I.e. many people copy-n-paste stuff they don't really know much about in order to make their website look decent. If the underlying technology is complex and difficult to understand, this can lead to an unholy mess that (most likely) developers will have to unwrap.