I wonder if we're making out CSS to be harder than it is. Yes, there are difficulties and common problems in practice, but news tool and approaches introduce th

I wonder if we're making out CSS to be harder than it is. Yes, there are difficulties and common problems in practice, but news tool and approaches introduce their own. The biggest of these: overhead in the form of tooling, performance and a higher barrier to entry. Consider the cases where CSS's common painpoints are maximized: complex pages with a lot of (3rd party) components. Does the added cleverness of the tools make that much difference, or does ultimately, a complex page come with unavoidable challenges by definition? So far I'm not completely convinced that the value-add is big enough to warrant such a different approach.