Tailwind has taken the world by storm because it let's engineers completely ignore actually learning the technology that powers the web. That doesn't make it good - and it isn't. It's a bloated mess with tons of random technology surrounding the ecosystem in an attempt to make it usable.

Tailwind literally only becomes usable for large scale applications once you have combined base tailwind, postcss, a number of tailwind plugins, custom themes, tailwind-variants, tailwind-merge, clsx/classnames, some custom written typescript typing tools, and a number of editor and linter plugins.

People here saying "It works well with AI" is such a wild take for so many reasons, not least of which is just straight up admitting that you don't mind your code being unreadable garbage because you aren't reading it anyway.

The `@apply` syntax glazing here is wild too - you're literally just writing CSS at that point. Just use vanilla CSS. Like that is all this is: ```css .select2-dropdown { @apply rounded-b-lg shadow-md; } .select2-search { @apply rounded border border-gray-300; } .select2-results__group { @apply text-lg font-bold text-gray-900; } ```

The only "good" thing about tailwind is that right now the rest of the ecosystem is woefully lacking for a number of reasons and tailwind has the benefit of being used by a ton of random projects so you can find tools and references to make it better. But it's not good.