So, frontend tooling is freeing developers from mundane tasks and cognitive overhead at the cost of not strictly following standards and recommendations. The tooling could be improved to more closely follow standards, but maybe those standards ought not be followed? Maybe the standards need to evolve with real world use. DIV has broader applications than what a committee envisioned. Sites are running, business is accomplished, goals are met while not strictly adhering to antequated standards.

If I make a tool with an intended use but the world uses it in another unanticipated way, and they're happy about doing so, then that is a very fortunate accident. I then shape the next iteration of my tool around real world use.