User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-954127-20150820100258/@comment-24473195-20150820102121

"-Sigh- I don't understand CSS or where to put it if I had it."

That was actually one of the main concerns in that potBox (portable infobox) discussion. While the infoboxes are stable enough to use, the fact that the default infobox design looks too "simple" makes a lot of people immediately disregard it. That's why over and over again in that thread people asked for another more attractive default look.

It seems that was a misstep. If wikia wants people to adopt a feature (e.g. potBoxes), it needs the "wow" factor, not the "oh that design looks too simple, my artistic look is gone, this new thing is harder than wikitext, What's CSS??" response.

Anyway, the new tools they are building will simplify infobox creation (which takes care of the difficulty of creating them), but probably not the style and look of infobox.

I think one good approach with this potBoxes is to create a simple gallery that quickly allows one to change the potBox style without worrying about css. Much like the Help:Theme designer that unfortunately only admins have access to.

That being said, there is probably no Wikimedia/wiki developer who is under the illusion that wikitext is a perfect markup language that caters to both new and old editors.