CSS's problems are Tailwind's problems

Summary

Tailwind is the Worst of All Worlds Tailwind is the worst of all worlds. It is a regrettable step backwards that takes everything bad about CSS and modern web development and brings it all together in one library. CSS's Successes and Failures Of all the web technologies that underlie the modern web, the one that has received the fewest fundamental changes is CSS. We've gotten amazing things like flexbox, grid, container queries, and more which have supercharged the ability to quickly build responsive styles. While we're far from the days of using tables for layout and googling "how to vertically center css" once a week, the language semantics themselves hasn't had to change much. This is because CSS offers two well rounded ways of applying styles that work pretty well: inline styles and stylesheets. Inline styles let you quickly add targeted rules to a single element. Much maligned historically due to the fact that many abused them and thus failed to keep their code DRY, there's really nothing wrong with inline styles. If there is something wrong with them, it's simply that an HTML attribute is a kind of clunky place to write out styles. They'll wander off screen on your editor once you have enough rules and it's harder to get nice formatting or static analysis. But if you're a good developer you won't use inline styles this way very often. (This is what we call foreshadowing). Stylesheets are the much more powerful feature. They let you assign a set of rules to zero, one, or many elements at once with the minimum amount of code. They also include all the fancy features like media queries, container queries, and pseudo-elements, which are not available inline. Flaws that existed in the early days of stylesheets have largely been remedied, albeit not always in the most desirable way. SCSS variables had broader support (since they simply compiled to basic CSS) and were prettier than CSS variables, but eventually SCSS started losing steam in the face of an improving CS...