alt Hacker News> that’s exactly the part that is anti locality of behaviour.
It is not. Because it fits the concept of "web pages" as documents and forms (which most web apps are, even if they're trying to pass as desktop applications.
> I don’t want/need cascade. I only care about components and building up from them. And I would rather have it be explicit over implicit and scoped/encapsulated.
And you're very welcome to do what you want. But there's no need to bash cascading as it's a good solution for web pages.
End users and even other programs/extensions can load rules to alter your styles. I think thats about as opposite of locality of behaviour as it gets. (no judgment on customization on being good/bad).
With the rest I don't really strongly disagree. I think its just a question of complexity. For simple things its fine, but for complex apps with teams of people :shrug: