There are a lot of arguments I've heard in this article rehashed time and time again to the point that I feel if I were Adam Wathan (Tailwind Creator) I'd just

There are a lot of arguments I've heard in this article rehashed time and time again to the point that I feel if I were Adam Wathan (Tailwind Creator) I'd just read this, shake my head, and move on. No one is holding anyone over a barrel. You still have to have your head screwed on right when you write code, and a failure to do so is not a condemnation of the tool by itself. Tailwind has tons of good escape hatches, and many of these arguments about terrible maintenance are just rubbish. I use the developer tools with Tailwind all the time when debugging. I just pick a test case, write an inline style to demo an override, then go back and update my styles. I still write a lot of custom CSS when it's called for, modern features, included with Tailwind. Now it's easier to spot those more complex features in a much shorter stylesheet. I've explained carefully to my junior developers that Tailwind is a tool to make it easier to generate and manage a standardized, reusable design language in CSS that is expressed through JavaScript without inflicting a performance penalty on the end-user. It's not a panacea. As much as it has grown and prospered, we still look at it as an extension of PostCSS, not a replacement for CSS. I stress to my team that learning and writing real CSS is still necessary, and that our goal should always be to look out for ways to not use Tailwind or to eliminate it when it makes sense to do so. I'd love to hear more about scoped styles, especially why they were deprecated by browser vendors. I'd be interested in seeing some data about performance penalties from HTML parsing too. I personally haven't noticed anything that could make a difference no matter how "ugly" it is. I guess I just want to stress my/our open-mindedness. I don't understand why Tailwind has become such a religious topic of discussion for CSS. I remember when writing CSS was a lot harder before Tailwind and lots of other really nice CSS features were around. I feel like we've come a long way.