There are two different things people could be referring to when they mention the "cascade".

One is CSS style inheritance. So if I do this:

  <div class="text-blue-500">
    <i>hello</i>
    <b>world</b>
  <div>

The `text-blue-500` style is going to cascade down to the descendent elements. That's just how CSS works and there's no getting around it.

The other usage of the term applies to a style of writing CSS that makes use of this cascade. So something like this:

  .card {
    color: darkgray;
  }

  .card .header {
    font-size: 20px;
  }

I think what people are referring to in this thread is the latter, which is not the cascade, but a particular approach to CSS.