It's so leaky that I have to constantly think about the thing it's supposed to abstract away. For most of the work a frontend dev does Tailwind is just a nice

It's so leaky that I have to constantly think about the thing it's supposed to abstract away. For most of the work a frontend dev does Tailwind is just a nice shorthand library that makes life a bit easier for basic stuff. In that regard it's no different to Bootstrap, Bulma, Skeleton, etc. If you want to use it for absolutely everything, and you expect it to have every possible design element included, then you'll be disappointed. Just like you will with every other library. 90% of the time the abstraction works nicely. You can think in CSS and mentally convert to Tailwind pretty easily, or you can just learn Tailwind and occasionally have to delve into the docs when you're using quite niche styling. It's not perfect, but that's not a reasonable criticism. No library is.