There's layers to 'knowing css'. There's I've been working w/ it for 20 years, but can I create flexboxes without google? nope. Do I learn every new feature/nuance? probably not.

It's like you can know how to unclog a toilet or change a faucet, you're no plumber, you don't know what a plumber does, but you can do enough for 80% of your needs, and when you can't you either call the plumber or you pick up a plumbing book or go to google/youtube.

I don't think you need to be a CSS expert to use tailwind, that's why I stuck w/ bootstrap for so long, but I also think you need to maybe think more about the underlying css so at least be willing to keep more CSS knowledge in your RAM or SwapFile in your brain, but there's things like daisy-ui that sort of wrap TW in bootstrap like niceties so you can kind of have both worlds, and come with nice themes to boot.

If you just copy the utility classes (for example from tailwind ui) and don't touch the css file, you get what you see in a reliable fashion. I guess that might qualify as working without knowing CSS for some, in the crudest way possible.

Yes, all over twitter. Especially on negative or even 'tailwind i cool but not for everyone' posts

I spend a disproportionately high amount of time on Twitter and haven't ever seen that. Very strange!

All arguments I've seen are about consistency and maintainability.

Appeal to social media argument.

OT: I often see someone make a dubious claim, someone else asks for proof, and they say "that's what I keep hearing on Twitter."

It's just another logical fallacy, especially since Twitter is known for bad and hot takes.

It doesn't support your argument the fact that you heard a random person on social media say something dubious.

/rant

It's not hard to use tailwind without knowing css. Google answers your question 90% of the time. The other 10% you read about the appropriate css and then translate that to tailwind.

I think everyone using tailwind probably 'knows css', they've used it, they can test stuff in chrome via inspect, and they know the basics. Most do not know flexbox inside and out, or every different ways to make grids, etc.

Personally, I usually just look through component sites for something like I want, then modify it to my needs. 95% that works, sometimes I go build it out myself.

I'm fullstack, but more backend and that's where I'm most comfortable so the less I worry about design the better it is for my sanity, except I do like dabbling w/ the js layer in vue, alpine, or react.