I see your points here and I was pretty much coming from the same side. I'm not afraid of CSS / specificity and alike and was always sceptical when it came to CSS-in-JS solutions as they in my view solved problems that I never had (like the scoping issue). The cascade is one of the main features in CSS and you can benefit from it a lot when using it correctly.
Also I would never say that you have to use Tailwind for every project, but when working in bigger projects with many engineers especially it is important to have constraints – and I have not found a better solution for that yet than Tailwind: It's easy to learn not only for engineers but for designers as well as it helps you to think in constrained tokens. If you have a better solution for this, I'd happy to hear it from you!
It's also fun to look behind the code of Tailwind – it has clever solutions for many problems. With that it is at least a great library to learn from and apply in your own CSS code afterwards. The way Tailwind takes advantage of CSS' core features like CSS variables / the cascade / specificity is nice to see.
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I see your points here and I was pretty much coming from the same side. I'm not afraid of CSS / specificity and alike and was always sceptical when it came to CSS-in-JS solutions as they in my view solved problems that I never had (like the scoping issue). The cascade is one of the main features in CSS and you can benefit from it a lot when using it correctly.
Also I would never say that you have to use Tailwind for every project, but when working in bigger projects with many engineers especially it is important to have constraints – and I have not found a better solution for that yet than Tailwind: It's easy to learn not only for engineers but for designers as well as it helps you to think in constrained tokens. If you have a better solution for this, I'd happy to hear it from you!
It's also fun to look behind the code of Tailwind – it has clever solutions for many problems. With that it is at least a great library to learn from and apply in your own CSS code afterwards. The way Tailwind takes advantage of CSS' core features like CSS variables / the cascade / specificity is nice to see.