This is not true for me. I’m not in the business of building frameworks and I find Tailwind really better. If CSS is the assembler, then Tailwind is the C programming language. At the end of the day you still work with the same box model, etc, but it makes me go faster. I find myself looking at the Tailwind docs even if I’m not using Tailwind - truncate would be a great example.
The other benefit of Tailwind is that it’s bringing a design system with it. So no more figuring out the px size of a font (“infinite” possibilites), just pick one of xs, sm, base, lg, xl, 2xl, etc. Same goes for colors. A tip from their Rafactoring UI book - consider building your app in grayscale and only add color later. Again, Tailwind brings 10 shades of gray, and by limiting options makes things easier.
The moment when I fell in love with Tailwind was when I was able to recreate a designer-made modal dialog from their book in the Tailwind playground in minutes, which was a feat considering my limited CSS skills. It felt like Tailwind gave me superpowers. Of course the modal in the book was made using the same design system that is embedded into Tailwind, but my previous statement still holds true.
