caryhartline

To append to what biggernoise said, your clean HTML is just an illusion and you are going to missing the Javascript(which is a very important part of the framework). You're still working with a giant framework that is meant to be used in the default manner. Sure the markup doesn't look pretty, but what do you expect from these kinds of frameworks?

In the end, people who like to customize the big frameworks at some point realize that they either need a much more simple framework with very simple and semantic markup or they need to just do it on their own. I used to think I could "fix" Bootstrap, but it's not worth it.

@creaktive No matter what you think of PHP; it is still a highly used language and tips like these are helpful.