if I see another support question like "how do I control what happens when multiple classes apply to the same element" I am going to weep
It's probably not obvious to people who aren't as deep in this as me that there is a political dimension to this issue. Because CSS is explicitly a (largely but not exclusively visual) design language, the pool of CSS experts has much more representation of people from design backgrounds rather than engineering backgrounds, which for Reasons means that CSS experts tend to be much less male and much less white than the broader pool of tech workers. And this creates a reactionary force where people frame CSS as simultaneously trivial and incomprehensible, either way not something that can or should be the subject of explicit and intentional education the way other programming languages are.
(It's interesting to note that this absolutely doesn't work the other way—people who learn CSS deeply are very well equipped, both attitudinally and technically, to leverage that knowledge to learn other programming languages. One of my proudest achievements with Sass is seeing how many people use its combination of CSS and procedural programming as a stepping stone to learning all sorts of other languages.)
