Call me a curmudgeon, but I am still not a fan of Tailwind.

I know a lot of newer engineers that believe it’s a perfectly acceptable alternative to learning CSS, to which I always respond: using Tailwind does not absolve you from having to learn CSS.

There are also a lot of comments in this thread claiming that the “right” way to use Tailwind is to create composite classes using its utility classes, but I have rarely seen anyone do this in practice.

Instead, the inline classes pollute the markup to the point of becoming extraordinarily difficult to read, and unless you make a concerted effort to e.g. bury as much of that garbage markup in reusable components as possible, it remains a persistent eyesore.