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Nah. Plenty people struggles with the use of tailwind or at least were interested in shortcuts. Thats the whole what tailwind plus offers. In some ways tailwind is like matplotlib/pandas/numpy. Increadibly powerfull but some methods/classes are difficult to remember to you keep googleing the same things.

Doesn't matter anyways wether their customers are people who search for shortcuts or people who search for "the best designs".

Their problem was and is that tailwind is used by many of the most profitable companies in the world for free.

Thats so unbelievable stupid. You have corporations paying millions for MS 365 subscriptions, confluence, and other software and basically nothing for a totally optional ui library. If the use of tailwind saves 10 engineering hours per month then it's worth it to pay a few hundred $ for a licence.

Given that their team isn't big they don't even need that many customers. Add a bit consulting for a decent hourly rate and they should be golden.

The more I think about it the more I blame the CEO for poor decisions.