If some putatively "creative" person has taken the effort to learn HTML and CSS, then they're already working in an area which to them may as well be programming -- odd as that may sound to an actual programmer. (And besides, isn't a significant portion of jQuery's audience comprised of web designers? What does that tell you?)<p>I find it hard to believe that anyone who has worked with CSS on a regular basis would be intimidated by Sass.  As the article makes quite clear, it's conceptually simple and provides obvious maintainability advantages.  If anything, it subtracts rather than adds complexity.