It's really sad to see novice developers rediscover and revisit arguments from decades ago, but that's really the curse of software development, isn't it? Why does Tailwind CSS even have some kind of brand name? It's just bad CSS. It doesn't need a name.
The CSS specification says nothing about how to map styles to classes. So when you say "bad CSS", maybe you mean bad methodology? Bad for what? Bad for whom?
You probably weren't alive yet, but the CSS methodologies that originated from the CSS Zen Garden made sense in an era when XML was supposed to take over the world. But it didn't, and there's no sense hanging on to those promises.
ps. Media queries were not a thing twenty years ago.
The reason XML didn't take over the world, and we're left with this mess of garbage for a front end, is because of bad developers like you. Mistakes in the past are no reason to continue making mistakes in the future. From your example, the obvious solution would be to write better markup instead of writing worse styles.
