> It's essentially a small language you write in the class attributes of your HTML that compiles to a combination of CSS rules and selectors — an abstraction ov

> It's essentially a small language you write in the class attributes of your HTML that compiles to a combination of CSS rules and selectors — an abstraction over CSS That is not what abstraction means. If it is a "language" (as you describe) that essentially maps 1 to 1 of what the CSS itself does, it isn't actually abstracting anything away. The key trait of abstraction is information loss. Tailwind keeps you connected to the CSS you are using more so even than CSS in stylesheets does.