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How is tailwind modern? It's just a ton of unreadable utility styles that you have to memorize. They've just created a new metalanguage - and now they can charge people to use 'pro.' It's like the first idea that ever happened... and then we realized it was bad - and now tailwind is doing it x100 10 years later. How is that modern?

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Tailwind is highly modular, and doesn't hold your hand, so it's more 'modern' than the traditional frameworks like Bootstrap that have opinionated ideas about how a card or a menu bar should look. If you have a problem trying to memorise utility styles you can always refer to documentation, so I don't think that's an argument against Tailwind.

If you want to do absolutely zero thinking when you're writing HTML, but still have the power of a framework to support it, you can always turn to classless frameworks: github.com/troxler/awesome-css-fra...