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SCSS and BEM are methodologies, whereas CSS is just a specification with various implementations and is methodology-agnostic.

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SCSS isn't a methodology, it's a tool for reducing repetition and capturing syntactic complexity in CSS.

You're right, I was thinking of SMACSS.

SCSS (or SASS, more generally) does benefit some methodologies more than others though; I've never found much use for it while using Tachyons or Tailwind, for example.

Whatever we call these it does not change the fact that both methodologies cripple CSS in many ways, and shadow things covered already by CSS and other means. I think both are responsible for how CSS is received and it is sad, because CSS is not responsible for these horrible methodology mistakes.

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