There's a project on every developer's machine that has Sass installed for one reason: &:hover {}. Not @mixin. Not @each. Just the nesting. The variables long since became --custom-properties. The only thing still justifying node_modules/sass is the ability to write child selectors inside parent rules.
CSS added that natively in 2023. It shipped in Chrome 112, Firefox 117, and Safari 16.5 — every major browser released in the last two years. The compiler is not earning its spot anymore.
What you've been writing in Sass
The classic pattern — component styles scoped to a block, with states and modifiers nested inside:
.card {
