Why did drag& drop HTML editors die?

Hi!

Nowadays everyone is astonished by the ability of AI to turn UI sketches into working HTML/CSS, but I think people tend to forget that the same thing used to exist back in the 2000s in the form of tools like Dreamweaver, called WYSIWIG or what-you-see-is-what-you-get (which was a huge lie). Now, these things used to be universally terrible, likely owning to the lackluster feature set of HTML itself, and the lack of standardization across browsers, so they kind of went away as you needed to hand-code sites if you wanted production quality.

Everyone's workflow nowadays seems to be about writing all markup by hand (either based on a Figma sketch, or nothing), with aforementioned AI being rather good at helping out writing frontend code.

I feel like, rather than AI tooling, I'd rather see these nice editors make a comeback, supporting not only raw HTML/CSS but the most commonly used frameworks, with tech like databinding as well.

There are a number of markup languages with similar layout logic to HTML/CSS (QML, WPF etc.), that do come with rather easy and pleasant to use UI designer apps, so I'm convinced the logic is not that hard to map.

WPF was particularly nice, as you could do things like hook up a dummy data model and fill it with data, so that all the databinding controls would simply just work. I feel like there's nothing quite similar in the world of webdev (or at least something that's a commonly used workflow)

The code they generate tends to be acceptable, and they do not break when the user modifies the code directly.