I mean, the shadow DOM practically forces you to put the styles with the elements they style. If you're going to do that, there's nothing stopping you from just

I mean, the shadow DOM practically forces you to put the styles with the elements they style. If you're going to do that, there's nothing stopping you from just exclusively using the style attribute in HTML, which would achieve the same result without the shadow DOM. In my experience when I start running into problems with competing styles it's usually because I've not structured my CSS well, although admittedly, structuring your CSS well is pretty hard to do.