At school or university you have options regarding who you are going to copy to get that assignment done. You can spend hours plagiarising with a lot of work put into rephrasing things slightly so that your work will pass as your own. Or you can spend a lot of time second guessing what everyone else is doing and emulating what you think the solution is. Or you can actually ignore what everyone else is doing and roll your own solution, learning the fundamentals, copying nobody. Then when done you can have a look around and see what you missed in the other ways the problem has been solved. By going original in your thinking you might have missed a trick or two. Or got something wrong. But, with a foundation of original work you can confidently patch up what you have got to be best in class, all defects removed.
I think the web is like that. Sometimes you look for a simple aide-memoire on Stack Overflow where once upon a time all the answers were seemingly brilliant. But then you realise that you have moved on from that, your own code is better, you aren't just copying and imitating, you have this understanding thing going on that is lacking in some of the other answers.
Then there is the hamster wheel of forever having to learn the latest and greatest, that panic and fear of the unknown latest framework. So another round of copying and imitation goes on, the mountain top of confidence and knowledge never reached as there is always another extra thing to add in to the build chain to make it better.
But then you realise you are working on a second rate website to sell hair care products to care bears. And it doesn't need the latest trends in visual design or the convoluted ways of cooking up yet more div soup that nobody is ever going to notice.
I beg to differ on your attitudes towards your staple diet of div soup. Concise, content first actual content is not the same thing as bullshit written by people that can't spell force fed into some content blocks that rightfully should only ever contain the lorem ipsum text the visual mockups demanded of them. It is time people started with the raw manuscript and got the copy right without applying a single style. When this is done styling with CSS grid and lovely HTML5 elements works beautifully. This is no marginal gain in bloat, it is a whole new world of maintainability and awesomeness. If you ain't doing it right you are doing it wrong and some mastery of CSS grid is needed, it ain't just something you sprinkle in div soup like it is a fifty bucks Wordpress theme.
Content is king and there isn't any div soup needed. Maybe a div for holding that Google ReCaptcha button but I am struggling for bona fide instead of lazy ignorant uses thereafter. You have got to get the document structure right, accessible and good for modern CSS.
Of course this falls apart if you need to support 32 bit iPads or that person struggling along with Internet Explorer 6.
