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Ken Bellows

Yeah absolutely, I'd flatten it if possible, I was just trying to intentionally demonstrate multiple levels of nesting. But I have also found plenty of real-life cases where I needed to nest values like that for layout and/or semantic reasons. With the advent of CSS Grid it's becoming a lot less necessary to nest for layout's sake, but I still find it can be useful semantically, just to better organize the markup for reading, and in some cases for a11y purposes as well.

I personally haven't had much trouble with even pretty deeply nested BEM, as long as you're careful to refactor commonly repeated styles and component patterns out into reusable utility classes where it makes sense. But of course, as with any technique, you can take BEM too far.