User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1251315-20150820114515/@comment-1251315-20150820150526

@FishTank: Inline CSS in the wikitable format is hardly "bad practice". Also, parserfunctions only become "expensive" when your not using them properly, calling too many "expensive functions" or simply having everything in unnecessary conditions.

Plus, I've tried to learn Lua and failed and really don't have much intention of trying to convert every infobox I've coded (counting 3 wiki's) into another format that no other user will understand, except other coders on other wiki's. ParserFunctions, at least, are understandable to most people.

Not to mention: what about the wiki's who HAVE to use parserfunctions because they use SMW? Why should such wiki's be badgered with a notice to convert their infoboxes when they can't? :D