Comment by aosaigh

The same comment is at the top of every post related to Tailwind. Read this section in the docs and try it out before judging:

https://tailwindcss.com/docs/utility-first

The core principle is that you wrap up all UI elements into components. Most frontend and backend/template frameworks allow you to do this. You then verbosely apply the Tailwind classnames to perform styling, staying out of custom .css files all together.