If you are speaking of people manually inserting style attributes into their code then there's a point for the resistance to that. It's horrible in comparison t

If you are speaking of people manually inserting style attributes into their code then there's a point for the resistance to that. It's horrible in comparison to classes. If you are speaking of JS framework dumping code into the style attribute on the fly then there's a smaller point for the resistance to that. There are features of CSS that are not available through the style attribute. Plus, it's just plain inefficient.