Tailwind is great, but I consider it an outlier. They went and made a stand-alone compiler so you don't have to use NPM build processes. It works very well. It

Tailwind is great, but I consider it an outlier. They went and made a stand-alone compiler so you don't have to use NPM build processes. It works very well. It's less that people take issue with JS/TS itself and more the frameworks that use it and the associated dependencies and tooling. The complaints in the article are very representative of my experience.