Instead of assuming that everyone who has a different preference than you is ignorant, it might be helpful to look at the problems that each technology solves and the requirements they fulfill.
The cascade is a huge issue for teams need to be able to safely modify one area of a site without accidentally impacting others. Tailwind solves organizational problems by colocating the styles with the elements - allowing changes to be surgical, declarative, and predictable. Editing and removing styles is as easy as modifying the content of the page.
Yes, the cascade is super powerful, but it needs to be contained somewhat to scale to many developers and large codebases.
> 1/4 Americans (USA) can't read
Also even though your analogy has nothing to do with CSS, I have to point out that this absolutely isn't true (which in the context of your argument about education is pretty ironic)
The cascade is a huge issue for teams need to be able to safely modify one area of a site without accidentally impacting others. Tailwind solves organizational problems by colocating the styles with the elements - allowing changes to be surgical, declarative, and predictable. Editing and removing styles is as easy as modifying the content of the page.
Yes, the cascade is super powerful, but it needs to be contained somewhat to scale to many developers and large codebases.
> 1/4 Americans (USA) can't read
Also even though your analogy has nothing to do with CSS, I have to point out that this absolutely isn't true (which in the context of your argument about education is pretty ironic)