I agree that dev-shaming is a reality of our industry that must be abandoned. Use Tailwind if it works for your use case. That said, I am amazed at the sheer industrial levels of effort that devs go through in order not to learn and use CSS. It's a pretty nifty solution to the problem of programming layout and interfaces.
I spent over 20 years writing CSS, trying countless naming conventions and organisational techniques in an attempt to keep everything clear and maintainable.
CSS can be complicated because the problem it solves is complicated, not because it is a bad solution. Using a more constrained CSS is completely valid if it works for your project.
