Are overlapping HTML formatting tags always a bad practice?

Question

Suppose I need to have a text with a bold and an italic part that overlap each other, like you see this sentence have.

Now, I know the proper w

Answer 1

Combining i and b is totally fine, however, you need to make sure to nest them correctly.

Wrong:

I want this text to have both bold and italic

Right: (depending on what you want to achieve, of course)

I want this text to have both bold and italic