alt Hacker NewsI can immediately spot organizations void of any skilled frontend engineering leadership by their use of Tailwind.
Generally coupled by some memory leaking React soup, solving 2016 SPA problems in 2026.
Likely 30-something years old MIT-bred leetcode ninjas that know little to nothing about front end technologies in the first place. They don't even remember _why_ the industry reached for client-side rendering library at some point. They think it's for interactivity. HN comments are quite telling about it.
Bloated slop is bloated slop, I still have to find a single example proving me wrong, and what's produced on top of react-tailwind by billion dollar companies just confirms my negative bias around the people using it, the results speak for themselves.
Straight from my heart - i couldn't have said it better. I always had this answer in my head, but nobody asked and it felt senseless to talk about unpopular opinions. Now you have been faster than me, here under the umbrella of the tailwind-topic - but you should know, you are not alone with exactly that attitude.