Have the same feelings about HTML/CSS and even similar towards JS. I believe that if one gets a grasp of it, then CSS is extremely easy now, compared to like 5-6 years ago, where on top of CSS itself, you had to be good with all the quirks for IE and other browsers.

If today someone tells that CSS is hard, I honestly get stunned. I wonder if the idea of "everyone can code" might be root cause of current state. I mean - if after some time you cannot get intermediate CSS skills, then I'd say that web programming (and maybe any other) is not for you.

It was with the boom of Tailwind CSS when I started to see a lot of comments like "OMG this framework is great - CSS was always hard for me, now I can do much more".