If you have a few minutes, check out a screencast or two from their docs [0]. I was very much in agreement that utility-first looked pretty awful until I saw it in practice.
After watching a few of those I started thinking about how much faster it could be to use these utility classes instead of writing it by hand. Everywhere he adds a few quick classes I was thinking "here I'd be going back to the CSS, hunting for that class name, maybe duplicating it to create a unique variation... and it took him 7 seconds with a utility class. Hm."
Haven't gotten to try it on a project yet but it's on my list.
After watching a few of those I started thinking about how much faster it could be to use these utility classes instead of writing it by hand. Everywhere he adds a few quick classes I was thinking "here I'd be going back to the CSS, hunting for that class name, maybe duplicating it to create a unique variation... and it took him 7 seconds with a utility class. Hm."
Haven't gotten to try it on a project yet but it's on my list.
[0] https://tailwindcss.com/screencasts/