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> non-spaghetti reusable, themeable HTML/CSS

The words of an open mind.

Each of those adjectives are very open to disagreement.

Perhaps. But hard coded colors, hard coded layout (flexbox etc), hard coded margins, paddings hard coded everything right in the markup. Tailwind and those adjectives are mutually exclusive.

Does nobody remember themeing forums software like vbulletin? Designers weren't allowed to touch the markup in the slightest and yet so many amazing themes were made. Why? Styling wasn't hard-coded in the markup. Hell, remember the insanely customized old.reddit subreddits?

We should be comparing Tailwind to modern alternatives, not vBulletin CSS from 2004.

FYI I'm a recent Tailwind convert so I agree that Tailwind is good, but your comment is like saying Tesla cars are great because they aren't horses.

Whoosh. Well I prefer my "modern" alternatives to be superior than the legacy ones, not the other way around.

All of the things you mention, including colours, are configurable or at least overridable at compile time. It's just not swapping a CSS file like the good ol' days.

I won't argue if one is better than the other.

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