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there's never a need to reach for tailwind, it's just a pathology some people like because someone else did the design work for them

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I think the second half of your statement disagrees with the first.

Much like saying, "there's never a need for Scratch, it's just a way for my kids to code fun things without worrying about semicolons."

That's true about Scratch so what's the problem? You don't need to use Scratch if you learn the syntax of whatever language you desire to use.

Tailwind is a design library for people who don't want to learn or write CSS. They don't technically need it.

Why insult the millions of users relying on Tailwind?

What's the insult? Tailwind is specifically for people who don't like writing CSS because it avoids various ways CSS works and comes with predefined styles.

"Pathology"

it's objectively a pathological use of CSS because it circumvents the C (cascade)

More discussion should be had if the cascade is even beneficial in the first place.

It's ironic because standard software development practices advocate isolation.

I think that's some of the drive behind cascade layers, so we can have more control of the cascade

They are thinking of the more common definition of pathological, which is mental disease/disorder. In the computer-related definition, it means failed outcome contrary to what was expected

Yours is a reasonable meaning assuming you meant the computing sense, but the more common understanding of the word would skew towards personal insult the way you used it.

Unfortunately people can't read your mind over the internet and unicode does not convey intent.

The cascade was a mostly mistake except for interesting applications like dark mode, imo. It does not scale easily for large orgs and its original usecases were tailored for balancing user/publisher/content creator presentation concerns. The market has spoken and the content creators rule.

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