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>I'm not a fan of BEM either. It terribly feels like over-engineering and ignores certain principles of CSS.

It's actually under-engineering (a brute force, hacky solution), and it ignores those principles of CSS (cascading for one) on purpose because they have been historically found to be more harm than good.

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Something about it reminds me of being new to programming.

var the_first_left_menu_item_animation_enter

var the_second_left_menu_item_animation_enter

What causes this problem? Does CSS not have any modular capability and that is why? Is it global by definition? Not really sure what I am trying to say.

>What causes this problem? Does CSS not have any modular capability and that is why? Is it global by definition?

It has crappy scoping and modularity rules.

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