Cascading only works as intended if you don't have third party styles and if the styling requirements of your application never change. What's funny is that CSS

Cascading only works as intended if you don't have third party styles and if the styling requirements of your application never change. What's funny is that CSS itself is subject to the same problems. It was created to help people add emphasis and layout customizations to text-based technical documents. Now it's used for everything from interactive maps to control interfaces on spaceships. I get why people hate CSS, but I think the underlying issue is that it's impossible to create software that can gracefully do whatever has been asked of it and will be asked of it in the future. It relates to the whole culture of continuous deployment and rapid iteration... a few people are talking about the downsides, but we haven't really reckoned with them as an industry yet.