The times I use important is generally to override a framework that is taking precedent, even though the sheet I'm editting is loaded after the framework css. T

The times I use important is generally to override a framework that is taking precedent, even though the sheet I'm editting is loaded after the framework css. That is 90% of my useage of !important. It may not have been intended for this, but a lot of things in CSS and HTML were never intended for certain use cases that they are now used for. That doesn't mean it is now misused, it just means things have evolved.