A cascade layer order that survived a year

One declaration at the top of the stylesheet, unchanged for a year, doing all the specificity work.

@layer reset, tokens, primitives, components, utilities;

/* and the count of !important in the codebase:
     2024  41
     2025   6
     2026   2, both in a third-party override */

A single-class utility beating a component rule without !important is what layers are for, and the count falling from forty-one to two is the measurement. The two that remain are overriding a plugin’s stylesheet, which is outside our layer order and is the one case the mechanism cannot reach.