First of all I love reading arguments about CSS architecture like this, since even for me doing CSS 19 years now I still haven’t found a „goldstandard“ - and I

First of all I love reading arguments about CSS architecture like this, since even for me doing CSS 19 years now I still haven’t found a „goldstandard“ - and I think he makes good points. However, I would be more inclined to use his utility classes as one layer in an ITCSS architecture and then have component styles that inherit from them, keeping them away from the markup as much as possible, while allowing to use those utility classes in the markup for quick prototyping.