Same. People touted semantic CSS as the future for ages, and that's what I was taught in my first role out of college. Parts of that made sense (e.g. de-noising html), so I was against tailwind, but it's has quickly become one of my favorite tools.

I am pretty conservative in terms of "use boring tech", because I see so much reinventing of the wheel and making the same mistakes, but Tailwind is not in that camp!

I was never happy with any of the CSS in JS solutions in React land – all of them felt tedious or boilerplate-heavy compared to Vue's CSS model, which is excellent. Writing css and getting component scoping for free are great.

But with tailwind I've minimized usage of Vue CSS too. I pull it in occasionally when I need specific overrides of the tailwind component lib I'm using, but other than that I don't even need to touch css.