[TabAtkins]

Yup, that's the problem with having a language that evolved slowly over 20 years, while its problem space changed enormously. CSS was originally intended as a simple way of styling text documents on the web.

We're trying to fix vertical centering, at least. The alignment properties from the Align spec <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-align/> do consistent centering (and other alignment) across layout modes. Currently they only work in Flex and Grid, but they're defined to work in Block and Abspos as well.