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There’s nothing wrong with you, it’s obviously terrible.

Tailwind folks will tell you you’re holding it wrong, but every tailwind codebase I’ve seen winds up like this.

I mean the use of tailwind in the article is not good. Shows a lack of CSS understanding. Why are they applying `text-base` instead of just setting that on the root element? Why are they setting text color on the <a> tag and then overriding it on the <span> inside?

This person would write bad CSS, let's not put the blame on tailwind.

Also so much repetition instead of pulling each breadcrumb link out into a shared component. I understand it's just demo code for an article, but if all code bases end up like this that you've seen, the issue isn't tailwind.

My limited experience is that it's a fair bit harder to do a good job of reviewing PRs with tailwind versus CSS. So many classes tend to blur together in the markup.

Might just be me, but I'd rather just see clean(er) markup and styles in a css file.

I don’t think they would write CSS that was as bad. And even if they did, I’d rather look at bad CSS than bad tailwind.

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