If a tool’s design makes it easy to cut myself, the response is not “people have been cutting themselves for years”.

There is such a thing as the ergonomics of the tool. Yes div soup has been around a long time. But also yes, Tailwind makes the wrong approach the easy one.

It’s ergonomics encourage adding div elements to support styles. It’s the core design loop.

You’re conflating “forces to” and “ergonomically encouraged”.