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This is a spot-on analysis of how CSS-in-JS failed to deliver on any of its promises:

CSS-in-JS was born out of good intentions — modularity, predictability and componentization. But what we got was complexity disguised as progress.

CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Frontend Sanity - The New Stack

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