[eyelidlessness]

> If CSS can’t match or improve on the obvious syntax used by sass then they should not implement it.

And this is the problem. For so long there was a technical limitation because parsing complexity, then there suddenly wasn’t a limitation anymore and the existing syntax wasn’t good enough anymore so we’re shooting the moon.

I agree, all of the options are confusing. The only seemingly viable option is close to Sass, but it should just be strict and stop introducing more ambiguity to the grammar which is already absurdly complex.