I’m convinced 40%+ of the anti-CSS complaining is out of frustration from folks who haven’t actually learned how Specificity works. I wrote CSS for five years before I knew this is a thing I needed to learn. It was @mholzschlag who taught me, at a presentation she gave in NYC.

100% agree. I've found a big part of it is that many developers' first experience with CSS is often with frameworks like Bootstrap that have some really terrible anti-patterns in their codebases. Highly specific selectors, overriding its own values etc.

I feel very lucky to have learned from participating in CSS Zen Garden and LiveJournal 😅