[troupo]

> Tailwind and similar frameworks divorce the concept of a semantic web we as a society have been building towards for decades.

We definitely haven't been building any sort of "semantic web", ever.

> It works against the idea that you mark up areas of your code with descriptive labels like "header"

You mean `.hero-text__sticky-container--secondary` and such. This neither is semantic nor decouples styles from the document.

> rather than separate the code from the appearance markup, it was generally considered to be a really bad idea.

People pretend that it is a bad idea. In reality "separate code from appearance" was dead on arrival. You'd be hard-pressed to find sites from any era of the web that didn't couple code and presentation (even if the two were in different files).

You only have to realise that separation of concerns cuts both ways: https://twitter.com/simonswiss/status/1664736786671869952?s=... (accessible to non-logged-in users)