This is actually something I love about tailwind. It doesn't create a layout abstraction. I solve 99% of my layout problems with 2/3 flexbox properties so I strongly recommend learning that.

CSS tricks has a very nice reference/guide: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/

Yes indeed. Layout abstraction is excellent until you need to do something it doesn’t expect, and then it turns into an absolute nightmare.

This used to be my go-to Flexbox reference, but Josh' guide supplanted it.

Try out Tailwind Toucan and let me know what you think! https://codeamigo.dev/lessons/243

We make plenty of Tailwind CSS templates for free at https://tailtemplate.com/