I wonder if we&#x27;re making out CSS to be harder than it is. Yes, there are difficulties and common problems in practice, but news tool and approaches introduce their own. The biggest of these: overhead in the form of tooling, performance and a higher barrier to entry.<p>Consider the cases where CSS&#x27;s common painpoints are maximized: complex pages with a lot of (3rd party) components. Does the added cleverness of the tools make that much difference, or does ultimately, a complex page come with unavoidable challenges by definition? So far I&#x27;m not completely convinced that the value-add is big enough to warrant such a different approach.