Yeah, that's a straw-man. I've worked on large-scale projects with many team members, and it's perfectly possible to use CSS as it was designed.

But sure, like most tools, it starts with understanding how it works.

Sure it's possible, but is it possible for everyone on your team? Including the new hire, the interns, or the now-vibecoding managers?

Sooner or later it deteriorates.

> Sure it's possible, but is it possible for everyone on your team? Including the new hire, the interns, or the now-vibecoding managers?

Why aren't we asking this about any of the things that are actually hard? Like any programming language, or databases, or caching... CSS is the easiest part of the web stack.

> Why aren't we asking this about any of the things that are actually hard?

We do. That's what countless abstraction layers, linters, frameworks, style guides, and CI checks are for.

> CSS is the easiest part of the web stack.

…and because programmers keep thinking that, they stay ignorant about CSS and structuring the styles properly - leading to the problems I described above.

Sure, but "total ignorance of how CSS is made to work" is also a straw man.

“That’s a straw man”, he says, as he hand waves it away as if it were not a problem