Exactly. In terms of design, something like tailwind is a great example of the 'templatization' of design and communication, where ease of authoring and maintainability is valued over producing artefacts that are appropriate.

I don't know if this is even remotely true, but I would guess Tailwind, and things like it, are more popular in agencies (sweatshops) that are pumping out projects where junior staff are the ones writing the majority of frontend code.

For the type of thing I do, "hand-authored" doesn't mean "unmaintainable".