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> I hate Tailwind with the passion of a million suns. It's loved by novices and those who don't know what they're doing, almost exclusively. They claim they know CSS, but will fail after any casual test.

As a long term front-end dev who likes tailwind, I find this fairly offensive. Your second and third points sound like problems with CSS in general.

> Vanilla CSS using `:root` declaration, a fixed base size (using `rem` and `em`), CSS variables and `calc()` are SO powerful.

If I'm using tailwind on a project, I don't want more power. I want less. I want simple constraints that give me solid basic styling without constant adjustment. The adjustments I _do_ want to make should be easy. The options available should be good options, not all options. I don't feel like fussing with box-shadow for the umpteenth time to get something that looks nice, or poking at my margins or padding or gap until it works with the rest of the page. I don't want to come up with a grid system again, or a color set, or a bunch of variables to extract these from the custom classes so they see proper reuse and are easily available; I want them already done.