You're completely right, and it's annoying to see this downvoted. Having read a lot of frontend discussions on HN, I would wager that half the people talking about how "complex" frontend is don't work in it. Tailwind and regular CSS are hardly distinct, it's just slightly different names.
It's very odd to see HN, supposedly a "self-thinker" crowd, continuously spout incorrect things because they heard someone else say it on here. Here are other things I've heard on HN repeatedly that aren't true (often in very upvoted comments).
- You can't make a static site with React
- React is only for SPAs.
- You can't use React without NextJS anymore.
- PHP is too slow for web development (maybe it is for your use case, but people seem to think it's bad for all use cases).
- PHP doesn't have strict type checking.
- NPM is somehow worse than every other packaging system (ignoring PIP, Maven, etc. NPM is surprisingly good at things that the rest of packaging systems don't get right).
It's very odd to see HN, supposedly a "self-thinker" crowd, continuously spout incorrect things because they heard someone else say it on here. Here are other things I've heard on HN repeatedly that aren't true (often in very upvoted comments).
- You can't make a static site with React
- React is only for SPAs.
- You can't use React without NextJS anymore.
- PHP is too slow for web development (maybe it is for your use case, but people seem to think it's bad for all use cases).
- PHP doesn't have strict type checking.
- NPM is somehow worse than every other packaging system (ignoring PIP, Maven, etc. NPM is surprisingly good at things that the rest of packaging systems don't get right).