> completely flies in the face of separating view from the program layer HTML is the view layer. The "program" layer is JS manipulating JSON (ultimately fetche

> completely flies in the face of separating view from the program layer HTML is the view layer. The "program" layer is JS manipulating JSON (ultimately fetched from a DB). Separating HTML and CSS made sense when content lived in HTML, and styling lived in CSS. Content hasn't lived in HTML in a long time— it lives in a DB now. (Maybe markdown if you're making a static site.) Separating HTML from CSS is separating view layer from view layer— just an unnecessary and expensive indirection