This is a great post, and related to my post here, where I demonstrated that when using the standard wrapper section/inner div structure, the current scheme is completely unintuitive because it’s backwards (even though @timmse claims it’s not…but it is, as I demonstrated). Luckily, it’s easy enough to override the built-in screwy backwards behaviour if you know what you’re doing, but I feel sorry for the folks who don’t and just want it to work.
100% agree that a simple DIV element, with no width or max-width settings is required.