The whole utility css style is bad design but new and trendy so I guess its got good adoption from that.
edit: $150 is a perfectly reasonable price for a template, people saying they should charge more are wrong you cant charge more than $200 for a template.
Tailwind has been great for me as a non designer. If the components are as helpful as just the css has been, $150 will seem like a steal.
And “design of css classes” isn’t something that seems very important.
The lack of name spacing in css is a big issue on any non trivial project. Tailwind was made specifically in an attempt to address this, but I guess that isn't very important?
$150 for a template is pretty average, checkout themeforest.net its got loads of components and templates many of them free. As a non designer I use designers resources all the time and modify them to fit the purpose great value to me and my customer.
Thats kind of my point, at first you think "How can you make half a million with such a dumb cookie cutter business model?"
Then after thinking about it for five seconds the answer is obvious. Just the same way as everyone else on theme forest make a theme and sell it to 3000 people job done.
No it wasn't.
FFS, just use custom attributes. Your attribute becomes the namespace. Its content determines styles. I figured this out 4-5 years ago and never looked back. It's amazing that we have thousands of designers making their libraries and writing their blog posts, yet this obvious solution to a universally occurring problem isn't something even considered by the general web design community.
Maybe worth noting, I did not buy it however. Namely because of how I'm writing my UIs atm. I can't use this product to quickly prototype - I'd instead have to hand copy layers of DOM elements and classes. At that point the buy-in of quick prototypes seems less valuable to me.
Still though, I'm definitely a target audience for this type of thing. Design, fiddling with the fine UI details, choosing colors, etc - all of that is not my area, nor do I desire it to be. I see the value in it.
They are making money, so no, it's not dumb