As a full-stack dev on a gigantic codebase, I struggle a lot with understanding the allure of this type of tools, considering the extra baggage they bring with

As a full-stack dev on a gigantic codebase, I struggle a lot with understanding the allure of this type of tools, considering the extra baggage they bring with them. I could see myself doing something like .card { @include margin(2); @include borderRadius(10) // etc } and so on, then using class="card" to tie it together, but adding a tree-shaking step, or a pre-crawling (!!) step just strikes me as entirely too hefty a cost for what amounts to parametric variants of a given style token