> Yes it does. Moving all styles into individual elements without reuse is copy and paste
Tailwind all but assumes you will be using something that allows you to extract HTML into components, be that something like React or Vue, or classic partials in a server-side templating language like Twig. You reuse the entire component, rather than just the CSS, which IMO is far better aligned with how apps are actually built.
So no, using Tailwind classes is no more copy pasting than typing CSS in full into a separate stylesheet is copy pasting.
My argument is that using the “mr-1 pl-2” utilities on both a login box and a message would be no more copy pasting than creating a stylesheet with “.login-box { margin-right: 0.25rem; padding-left: 0.5rem; }” and “.message { margin-right: 0.25rem; padding-left: 0.5rem; }”.
And if you’re suggesting that you would create a single CSS class with those properties to apply to both the login box and the message, then it’s my opinion that that is a broken abstraction that falls apart as soon as your designer asks if you can make the spacing in the login box a little looser.
Tailwind all but assumes you will be using something that allows you to extract HTML into components, be that something like React or Vue, or classic partials in a server-side templating language like Twig. You reuse the entire component, rather than just the CSS, which IMO is far better aligned with how apps are actually built.
So no, using Tailwind classes is no more copy pasting than typing CSS in full into a separate stylesheet is copy pasting.