The cascade was great for HTML in the absence of scope, which is to say in the age of documents. It's a reasonable approach to dealing with all the problems inh

The cascade was great for HTML in the absence of scope, which is to say in the age of documents. It's a reasonable approach to dealing with all the problems inherent in managing global state. But globals suck. In the age of components it makes little sense to cling to the cascade as if it were more than a means to an end.