It's not so much about attachment to current tools. It's just that you look at something like this, with all its cumbersome syntax, and wonder why they had to

It's not so much about attachment to current tools. It's just that you look at something like this, with all its cumbersome syntax, and wonder why they had to make it so ridiculous. And it's not like nobody had any decent ideas of how to do a nice, simple, clean syntax for variables. In the end I suppose we'll be able to continue using preprocessors, and maybe they can generate the clumsy native CSS variables, so it won't really matter and we'll get the best of both worlds. But it sure would be nice if they wouldn't create new features that instantly feel cumbersome to use compared to what people have already been using.