User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Update Your CSS and JavaScript To Speed Up Your Wiki/@comment-188432-20120823132434/@comment--20120823152806

We don't do that because the community requested we not do that - having any previous code in Common affect the Oasis/Wikia Look - during the skin development work in 2010. It was a hotly-debated thing amongst the community back then. Now that we're two years in to the Wikia Look, you're right that it may make things simpler now, but it would be both socially and technically difficult to make that change now.