These look like great improvements! I've been using Tailwind one a medium-large solo project and I can confidently say the whole project is MUCH better designed than it would have been without Tailwind, while still looking very custom.

Tailwind is not the one true way to do CSS, but it saves me from myself. I think of Tailwind vs Regular CSS how I think about TypeScript vs Regular JS. I could do everything and more in JS, but I'd make so many more mistakes along the way.