I used tailwind for my site and ended up liking it a lot, but maybe for reasons that are not often mentioned? The real value of tailwind is being able to read all the styles that affect a an element in one place. Sure the classnames can get long, but it’s still a lot faster to read that long line, than open the browser tools each time or scroll up and down one (or many) stylesheets.

Then when you come back to that code later, you can confidently edit it without worrying about causing changes to other elements.

The cascading nature of CSS is still helpful, but I find that I usually want to limit my styling to just one element. For all the rest I go back to css but I wrote very little css because I usually just want to get the whitespace right.