Comment by titzer

It's abstraction inversion at its finest. Declarative styling sounded like a good idea, but it jumped the shark long ago. It's begging to become a real programming language but for some reason the design ethos behind CSS seems to have been avoiding programming at all costs--maybe that's to keep the browser renderer in control (and hopefully responsive), maybe it's because they didn't want designers to have to learn to program, maybe they just hate JS. Whatever the reason, it's clear that CSS took a wrong turn and mutated into absolutely the wrong abstraction.