It's definitely weird at first, but the aim of atomic CSS is to not have a CSS file that just grows and grows and grows. This article(written by the creator of

It's definitely weird at first, but the aim of atomic CSS is to not have a CSS file that just grows and grows and grows. This article(written by the creator of Tachyons) helps to explain the issue: http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/03/24/scalable-css/ http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/03/24/scalable-css/ Where I work, we're using it on a new project and while it definitely requires a lot of learning(and just generally understanding CSS), it's faster to debug with, easier to take care of edge cases, and the total size for our app is incredibly small.