I share your sentiments about the over use of frameworks and utilities, but I know CSS and SASS inside and out. I can copy ANY visual design picture perfect. But I still find tailwind to be indispensable. The time savings are amazing. Especially when it comes to responsive design and breakpoints, etc. not have to do all those media queries is quite frankly a god send. You can’t argue that tailwind is bloat either. If you don’t prefer to use it then fine but don’t insinuate that people who choose to use it are inferior. Many talented developers use it exclusively. It’s used on some of the largest PWAs on the web.

If you ever find yourself developing large scale PWAs you’re going to need SOME kind of utility or transpiler. I couldn’t imagine or using webpack and typescript.

I recently rebuilt my blog site using nothing but pure HTML, vanilla JS and webpack. I also used Tailwind and PostCSS. My final CSS payload was like 80kb and my JS was almost nothing. I wrote my own SSG using PHP so all my blog pages are hard html files. It’s ridiculously fast.