Completely agree with the sentiment here that property declaration order matters (and automation is not ideal). That said, none of the examples ring true for me

Completely agree with the sentiment here that property declaration order matters (and automation is not ideal). That said, none of the examples ring true for me personally. The author correctly debunks the vendor prefixes (tooling) and duplicate declarations (debugging) non-issues, however they appear to hold firm on the short / long hand natural sort order conclusion. At least in sublime text, hitting f5 to alpha-sort CSS results in the longhand properties correctly appearing after their shorthand versions. Needless to say, unless I'm being lazy (often), alpha sort is not just a pedantic feature in my stylesheets but a practical one too.