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Someone brought this point up on proggit, and it was debunked by someone else who pointed out that many developers break their stylesheets up into multiple components for development purposes and then compile and compress them for production. This bug prevents them from testing on IE effectively.

Genghis Khan might have had far worse faults than picking his nose at the dinner table, but that still doesn't excuse the behavior.

It's true that more than 30 style tags on a production application is a big problem; however, in development mode it can be useful for debugging and maintainability to break out your stylesheets into granular modules that get concatenated at deploy time.

I've personally bumped into this limit in IE in development mode. My solution was to build a dynamic method that concatenated all the stylesheets on the fly if the IE user agent was detected.

Yeah, I agree with you. But think about it, if we have so many style tags in a single page, we did it bad. If IE has this stupid limitation, they did it bad.