I'm a non-designer developer who nonetheless does some frontend work, so with that grain of salt, here's my take: What everyone said to avoid was actually just

I'm a non-designer developer who nonetheless does some frontend work, so with that grain of salt, here's my take: What everyone said to avoid was actually just wrong. Semantic CSS failed. Tailwind (or utility classes in general) is the best way to implement a reasonably-maintainable and properly-specified version of putting things in the style attribute.