[chuckadams]

I think it's the complex specificity rules that prompted things like TW to come about. Sure it's useful and powerful but it's utterly baffling to reason about, especially when everyone's conventions work at a different level of specificity. Trying to tame specificity gave us cumbersome structures like BEM, and TW came about as an act of rebellion against such things.

Conversations about CSS complexity always remind of this quip: "Two CSS selectors walk into a bar. A bar stool on the other side of town falls over."