The complexity that SCSS and Sass are demanding seems to point to a need to abstract design elements of CSS from the complex layout engine its becoming.

Hunting through this to set fonts and colors (the original intent of CSS) is a bit of a nightmare now. Could we solve this by creating a design only CSS style sheet that defines the variables that plug into this more complex system?

This way designers can tweak live code without hunting through long and difficult to read stylesheets that point to 50?! nested objects.