One vying for this approach can wax poetic as much as one wants, but for me, seeing a difference between 'style="color: purple"' and 'class="color-purple"' (wit

One vying for this approach can wax poetic as much as one wants, but for me, seeing a difference between 'style="color: purple"' and 'class="color-purple"' (with '.color-purple { color: purple }' in the css file) is very much the same as seeing the emperor's new clothes. It looks and feels like indirection and I am aware of duck typing. The "it limits options" defense is not really here nor there, since ultimately you could just rewrite all css rules into classes. Much like the style you can add is infinite, the classes you can add are infinite.