Plenty of web devs understand how specificity and the cascade work. That doesn't meant that they work well. CSS is full of examples of good-sounding ideas tha

Plenty of web devs understand how specificity and the cascade work. That doesn't meant that they work well. CSS is full of examples of good-sounding ideas that didn't pan out. Frankly the whole thing works better when you avoid touching the cascade as much as possible. Which is why these atomic frameworks are modeled this way.