I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

Nobody does. Yet it is everywhere, like AI slop.

God help me, somewhere around 2016 I started using some alpha version of Bootstrap 4, and I just keep using that same version for all the basic stuff underneath my own SCSS for whatever I'm building. It's absolutely fine. A lot of it is displaced now by grids, but for flexbox stuff and modals and pushing rows and columns it just works. Very easy to remember class names and extend it. Thankfully I don't work for a company that cares about using the latest thing.

The only really critical things I need in scss are scaling typography and variables representing colors for iteratively generating class names and gradients and transparencies and stuff like that. By "scaling typography" I mean, I just have a loop that writes .scaling-typography-[a]-[b] where a and b range from 1 to 16, and the class that's generated scales from [a]em to [b]em between a phone size and a desktop size. In a rare case where that doesn't just work or it doesn't look good on a tablet or something, a couple specific rules extending xs- or sm- or whatever will cover it.

My sass customers don't even know what css means, it's fine. Nobody cares as long as the things they expect are on the page in the right position and font is readable.

I've used a lot of tailwind professionally over the last few years and I agree with this article - it is spot on.

I never even use tailwind in my own stuff, even though I think that small devoper-led side-projects are where it is a good fit (and the reason for it's popularity).

This is such a bikeshedding debate. While you don't recommend it, projects with Tailwind work. Over years. You can onboard new developers to it, able to contribute productively immediately. Likewise, you can pick up work after months or years and don't have to remember or rediscover how your styling layer works.

The conventions and class names come really naturally fast, and you can always look it up. It's just not as a big of a problem people make it.

But the most ridiculous part of the article I found the cascade complaint:

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Yes, this does not work. Why should it?! There is not a single use case where this is a good idea! In classic CSS, you might want to override something based on modifier classes, but that is just not a thing with Tailwind! If you end up programmatically layering class names, you're looking at a code smell. Instead, you want to use attribute or state modifiers, like `aria-hidden:opacity-0`.