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.
Emma Bostian @EmmaBostian
21 Jan 2019
Always frustrated because your CSS styles aren't working the way you intended? You should learn more about CSS Specificity! Check out my newest blog post 🙃 dev.to/emmawedekind/css-spec…
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I've been thinking a lot about this issue today and don't think it's an issue of anti-css but what is fast and easy. An example is encouraging inline CSS, or cheating with a !important without knowing where a conflict is, causing potentially more conflicts down the road ...
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Replying to @mholzschlag @jensimmons
People still think Web design and development is easy. CSS and SVG are not easy at all. Neither is Javascript. I have talked with JS-first devs who, upon learning a little bit about CSS, get more excited. It's declarative but CSS demands understanding of how browsers work.

Jan 23, 2019 · 4:46 AM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag @jensimmons
SVG is easy, it's opening up to the simplicity of implementation that is hard for CSS and Javascript coders.