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When the customer asks me to change the background of primary buttons from green to yellow and the background of nonprimary buttons to red, while changing other green backgrounds to a green-brown gradient, classes like "Button Button__Primary" tell me much more than classes like "bg-green".

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Your customers speak a different language than most of mine. The requests are more like "I need the green buttons to be yellow now!" It's easy to find bg-green on buttons and just find/replace with bg-yellow.

Also, using Tailwind/functional CSS for items that are repeated over and over on your site like buttons, you can easily extract them to a component. Switching from bg-green to bg-yellow would be as simple as opening your SASS/LESS file for components or button components and replacing it in that one spot.

> It's easy to find bg-green on buttons and just find/replace with bg-yellow.

Oh, that's because running sed over all your project files, all in a set of weak typed languages is easier than changing a definition in a single place. I totally get it.

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