Based on the comments by other folks here, looks like lot of folks are using Tailwind incorrectly and then blame it for not being the right tool.

Tailwind classes might be verbose but you are not supposed to use them directly in the markup. Always create wrapper classes that are specific to your design and simply apply the utility classes in them.

In short make your own Bootstrap like framework using Tailwind's primitives. Tailwind has made this trivially simple.