Comment by lobsterthief

In my experience, it’s because people fail to learn core CSS properties and principles but can remember which classnames to jam into an element to get it to align correctly (not realizing the sacrifice is duplicate CSS—and sometimes things only rendering because of specificity in the order of the classnames they jammed in—I.e. a lot of extraneous ones).

Tailwind and utility classes make things bloated. Source: been writing HTML and CSS for 20+ years and working with a lot of devs who just don’t get CSS.