Thanks for responding, I wrote this to keep a record of my steps for future reference. I did not intend that this was the only way or the right path
As I've seen many tutorials that were too complex to set up JIT with Tailwind, I thought it might be helpful to others as well who were having difficulty.
The next version of Rails will eliminate webpacker anyway, so I'll write for it
It seems like Tailwind is popular enough now to support guides for more than just JS frameworks and Laravel :)