🎨 State of CSS 2026: The Feature Everyone Wants Is the One Nobody Can Ship
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The State of CSS 2026 results are out, fielded May 15 – June 29, 2026 with ~4,900 respondents. The question set shrank from 63 features to 46, and the headline is a contradiction: the most-wanted new feature of the year is also the most-avoided one. Underneath that sits something stranger — CSS is the one part of the frontend stack AI still can't write. This post is about what to do differently, not about what the charts say.