I think the appeal of Tailwind is in having the defaults preset (especially if you customise them to your own design needs). Padding numbers, font sizes, colou

I think the appeal of Tailwind is in having the defaults preset (especially if you customise them to your own design needs). Padding numbers, font sizes, colours available, etc. You're not just randomly picking a px number in a style declaration, or trying to come up with a random variation of red. A new developer can come in and use the standard tailwind classes and they'll be productive right off the bat, regardless of your product's decisions around sizes/colours/etc. And it scales in a way that Bootstrap doesn't, because Bootstrap imposes a design. Unless you customise the living daylights out of it, it's going to look like Bootstrap. With Tailwind, you're building from scratch, and you can make it look like whatever you want, you don't lose any of the flexibility of CSS. I, too, had to try it before it clicked; I thought it looked ugly as all hell, tons of random classes sprinkled in. Went against all that we've all been taught in the past (remember when we all worried about semantic class names?). But it really is useful.