[jcr1488]

> Everyone forgets that SASS is meant to be programmable CSS

That sounds like a solution looking for a problem... The vast majority of real SASS I've seen has been much like the stuff this article mentions.

> If you treat it as CSS+ then you're not really benefitting from it's true potential

People aren't looking for "potential", they're looking for a way to accomplish their design goals whilst keeping their stylesheets maintainable. The real use cases where SASS is actually worth the complexity overheads are getting fewer and fewer.