[sureglymop]

As for your last paragraph, I can give you my opinion.

I believe it's almost purely a developer experience thing. People want immediate feedback with hot reloading. They want to test out any little change right inline and get feedback without a mental context switch.

Check out this talk from Bret Victor called "Inventing on Principle" if you haven't yet : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGYGl_xxfXA

It explores the benefits of this. Personally I don't often use tailwind but I do often use inline style attributes just to preview how something would look, before I refactor it into actual classes and rules.