it's impressive to me how many people who said they don't know how to code picked up on CSS just by googling. I hope you can realize soon enough that that's the way a lot of people figure out coding, and that all the other stuff is just for making it easier to write code, and easier for others to read it.
but it seems worth pointing to "only some css works, but you want to do the thing, so you figured out how to do it" and pointing out that that's how most of the profession is, the constraints just aren't always that obvious.
this isn't to say anything about people who weren't spurred to brute force Google their way to art posts, there's way more ways cohost manifests than that. But it's got me thinking a lot about pedagogy, corporate mentorship, and games