[brundolf]

I'll agree that it's a delicate tool. Similar to Lisp, CSS is very elegant in the right hands but also heavily reliant on the devs sticking to strong conventions and principles. On solo projects, or projects with just a couple of devs, it can be wonderful. But it does tend to have trouble scaling.

Which is why, even though I don't love them, I respect the usefulness of things like CSS Modules that impose more scoping and constraint over CSS codebases. For bigger teams they do tend to be necessary.