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by throwawaylala1 1552 days ago
> or a pompous person trying to make other devs feel inferior

This is how I felt reading it as well. IMO Steven should exercise a little humility.

It was bad design on his team's part. How is anyone supposed to know that there was only one super secret reason for "!important" to exist? Why not call it something like "!break-cascade-override"? They put an emphasize on making the language look "clean" over real world usability and this is the outcome.