Better way to create attractive content type input forms?

Drupal can do many powerful things but data entry with a beautiful look and bug free isn't one of them out of the box. I'm wondering if there is an easier way to create the user input fields so that the layout is consistently clean, attractive and easy to see. Wordpress has many plugins such as Formidable Pro to name just one. You can create beautiful forms and then just link the fields you've created to existing fields in Wordpress. I would think something similar would exist for Drupal.

Some of the problems I'm encountering are bugs with display using the most popular modules that allow for back end creation of content type input forms. If you have a date field, your help text won't display. And then there are times when the help text will be formatted inconsistently with help text that appears elsewhere on the same page. And the difference between Firefox and Chrome is significant. There must be a way to make nice looking forms without needing to custom code everything by hand and then creating a static page. Or is that it? (And I'm still working my way around how you'd even do that in Drupal.)

While I would like to use Drupal 8, I'm not sure any of this is much better and many things feel like a work in progress and potential bugs ready to spring... even though it looks great so far.