This echoes my feelings exactly, but another aspect of it that turns me off is evident in the walking-on-eggshells qualifications you need to add to your commen

This echoes my feelings exactly, but another aspect of it that turns me off is evident in the walking-on-eggshells qualifications you need to add to your comment to avoid being attacked by its "initiates." In comparison, my experience with adopting TypeScript was one where my initial skepticism was met with people clearly explaining the benefits of using it. And TypeScript has a similar aspect where you need to try it to really understand its benefits, but it also has clear value propositions that can be described and considered on their fundamental merits. Tailwind does not seem to have the same kind of benefits, so the arguments boil down to variants of "with us or against us" and "look at all these people using it." And from that perspective, I see a lot of people who I respect a lot who are _not_ using it. Whereas I never saw many experts saying "TypeScript sucks don't use it" - they just quietly adopted it because type safety was important to them on its merits.