I agree. I like CSS, and I don't like anything the frameworks offer, they're just the worst of all possible worlds: a LOT of CSS (it's not just the "custom CSS" that counts, from the perspective of the browser even off-the-shelf Bootstrap is 100% custom), with no aesthetic pleasure to show for it.
But that's for my own projects I work on as a single dev, in a team I might not mind as much. For something corporate, unless it's a corporation I can really get behind, I will not care at all, because I know it'll be thrown away soon. Let's make it bland then, I don't mind. But for my own things, it's not even a consideration.. I don't even start with a reset stylesheet, I start with a blank file, and I enjoy thinking up the overall structure just as much as I enjoy tweaking values here and there, and I still like things I made over 10 years ago. Care for the little things always ends up showing, somehow.
But that's for my own projects I work on as a single dev, in a team I might not mind as much. For something corporate, unless it's a corporation I can really get behind, I will not care at all, because I know it'll be thrown away soon. Let's make it bland then, I don't mind. But for my own things, it's not even a consideration.. I don't even start with a reset stylesheet, I start with a blank file, and I enjoy thinking up the overall structure just as much as I enjoy tweaking values here and there, and I still like things I made over 10 years ago. Care for the little things always ends up showing, somehow.