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In my experience there are a fair amount of rules in the second category of yours (anti-footguns). For instance, preventing invalid properties alone is a huge one. There are also rules like [1], a few violations of which popped up in our legacy styles. No dev of ours would've caught those.

[1] https://stylelint.io/user-guide/rules/no-descending-specific...

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hmm, maybe it's just that I am only being caught out by the styling rules, or maybe it is that I am pretty good at understanding the cascade so the linked example is actually something that - while probably a footgun - for me is likely to be annoying because I actually wanted to do what I did.

But I guess deploying a footgun is often a minimum two person job:

first person writes code that when used wrong will shoot in foot but they would never use wrong, next person actually pulls the trigger.

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