Alex Russell takes the W3C to task for this essay on CSS variables:
CSS authors who maintain the world’s most popular landing pages are contending with thousands of lines of CSS per page and hundreds of rules. This is orders of magnitude more complexity than the initially presented numbers, hopefully dispelling any notion that we could rely on those numbers as the basis for asserting anything but that those in the employ of the W3C and the volunteers which join them are not typical content authors and do not attempt the feats of CSS which are meerly [sic] work-a-day constructions for commercially successful websites.
There have been days in my career when I would probably have strangled the life from the author of this essay with my bare hands if it meant I could define variables in CSS.
