Comment 1 for bug 170040

As someone who has learned the joys of properly using styles
when Word Processing (many years ago, and more recently Web
Design) a powerful styles system would allow people to find
many more ways to misuse Inkscape in ways the developers
might not have predicted.
Certainly those who are already using Inkscape for
diagramming and techincal drawing could stand to benefit
massively from tools which make it easier to enforce styles
throughout their documents.