It definitely isn't, my point is that it seems to be largely is misunderstood as this being it's main purpose.

Tailwind is unquestionably accelerating drafting up a custom UI, and also makes this much more approachable for webdevs unaccustomed to CSS

The pitfall of declaring all your styles as strings of shorthands in html atts also might never hit you if your UI doesn't get too complex and/or never needs refactoring - but it hits hard if your codebase had grown to a certain scale over the years, and you suddenly need to change or refactor larger parts of the UI