[vehemenz]

> Since Tailwind looks obviously bad on first pass with all the class spam

Why is "class spam" bad? Argument? Go read the CSS spec. There's nothing telling how developers/designers how they should abstract their classes.

High abstraction classes are, I'm convinced, a holdover of the early days of the web when everyone thought XML and XSLT was going to take over the world.

The great thing about functional CSS (especially Tailwind) is that I can see exactly which styles are being applied, immediately, anywhere I want in the DOM. I don't have to consult a separate stylesheet or refresh my browser. There's no context-switching and everything gets built 3-4x as fast.