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You don't need to give every div and container a unique ID. Why ever do that? Many things never need their own ID.

Are tons of divs and containers needed? When I find myself needing containers I usually find out I've not been thinking about arrangement very well.

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If the options are "never encounter a problem" versus "when I encounter a problem I realize that it's actually a superficial symptom of a more substantial problem someone made hours/days/weeks/months ago," I will take the former 100% of the time.

Assigning an ID to every single element means never encountering a problem? I imagine that results in everything being a special case, much of the point of CSS missed, and in this special case Tailwind might even work as it's consistent with everything being a mess.

Well it certainly means never encountering odd and complex style cascades, but Tailwind avoids that problem altogether without requiring IDs for everything.

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