You're right in that it undoes the cascading bit, but that's the bit that a lot of people don't want. The updates to CSS are rarely about how it cascades, so it

You're right in that it undoes the cascading bit, but that's the bit that a lot of people don't want. The updates to CSS are rarely about how it cascades, so it _does_ follow the majority of updates. Also, if you look at the docs, the mapping between class and styles are the first thing you're given. IMO it doesn't hide anything about the models browsers use to build things like grids, for example