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by codemonkey-zeta 40 days ago
> The mess just moves

That's exactly the point. The author recognizes that people will extract components, and that is exactly why tailwind is attractive.

Plain CSS offers a componentization layer over (mostly) classes, but modern SPA frameworks offer their own componentization layers over functions. It's annoying and error-prone to keep these 2 layers, and lots of devs just abandon CSS for utility class mess. It's just a different choice.