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This is not the best of both worlds. This is an antipattern and discouraged by the Tailwind core team and the Tailwind community at large.

Actually, the docs says it's perfectly fine to use @apply for highly reusable components like buttons and form controls: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing-styles#avoiding-prematu...

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> even then only if you’re not using a framework like React where a component would be a better choice.

Yes I did. You seem to assume everyone is using a "framework like React". I am not.