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Well for example if you have a style on anchors on a site. If you update the general style (even it its in a class) you have to worry about everywhere that thing is used and whether it will break it. They are all completely coupled.

I mean there are techniques to avoid that like BEM and co, but they rely on you and your colleagues following them, and in my experience are a huge ballache.

Its also sometimes hard to track styling issues down, looking through all of the properties etc. And if you get into SCSS and mixins it slowly gets out of control.

On the flip site with Tailwind, it's all there in front if you and easy to change. If you need to repeat something often, you can just create components / partials with reusable parts.



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