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We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem
We keep changing how we style the web, but the real problem isn’t CSS. It’s how we build around it.
We’ve got scoped styles, design tokens, cascade layers, even utility-first frameworks that promise to eliminate bikeshedding entirely. You’d write some HTML, style a few headings and paragraphs, maybe float an image to the left, and call it a day. Fast-forward a couple of decades and we’re building highly interactive, component-based, state-driven, design-system-heavy applications, still with a language meant to style a résumé in the early 2000s.
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