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It breaks encapsulation, leaks styles, you have to fight specificity and it makes it hard to change markup and many more.

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You’re 100% correct on the cascade being bad and causing incidental breakage. The people downvoting have clearly not run into these problems yet or it would be obvious to them that your reply is in no way wrong, lol

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