Tailwind templates are extremely verbose, because they feel it is worth to spend their time optimizing features and adding designs to trying to make their code smaller.

I have often used their components as a basis, and clean up huge chunks because I feel that is in my interest for future maintainability - it is not a fault of Tailwind, but a decision they made.

You can make a "semantic" design , using Tailwind where it will save you tiem or add readability, and get the best of both worlds.