I think the thing with Tailwind that people are missing is the opinion that CSS's bigger general purpose classes to avoid repetition have failed. However, most of us are using some kind of HTML templating system. What matters is that the design work only happens once in the code, repetition in the finished product is just fine. So moving the job of avoiding repetition out of CSS and into your HTML templating system is the right way to go.
HTML templating (specifically FreeMarker macros) is what i’m doing now.
There are still some cases where classes are useful, like JS or when I have very different components with some shared style. But these are mostly edge cases. FreeMarker has some other problems though.
