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What I don’t get is that everyone is always acting like Tailwind invented this approach to CSS. It’s been a thing for at least 6 years or more, far before tailwind. Granted I suppose they have really brought it to the mainstream.

As someone who’s used this approach in production for years I can vouch for it. It greatly reduces complexity and is easier to maintain. Day to day no one is writing any css at all, nor are they bogged down with naming conventions, etc. You just “snap” together your utility classes ad-hoc as needed.

Responsive breakpoints are also much easier to work with because they’re just “built in” as modifiers on all the base utility classes.