[d_watt]

For me, it's actually the exact opposite. When I use scoping like that, my normal expectation is that I'm saying "Only style .me if it's in a .tells that's in a .something". I'm doing it for selector behavior. I don't want to have to consider if I later scope a

  .something_else { .me: content 'we don't' }

it won't work because it's less specific, meaning cascading isn't working as expected. It isn't SOLID

[woodrowbarlow]

exactly. more specific selectors are edge cases, which is a usually-acceptable heuristic for rule priority but doesn't correspond 1:1.