This is anecdata but in my experience the way WebDev (esp. HTML and CSS) is being taught in academia is very crusty. I've seen Juniors enter the workforce with a solid understanding of table-based layouts from the 2000s for some reason.
The other end of the spectrum: I’m seeing graduates with great knowledge of frameworks, but no understanding of the fundamentals that these are built on. It’s all fine until they’re trying to debug a problem and don’t know where to turn. glares at Tailwind
I guess it's a sign of the domain expanding (exploding, really). "Software development" is not a single discipline, even though it's still taught as such in many places.
I mean you can't really use Tailwind if you don't understand at least some of the underlying CSS. It's not like it does anything magical for you, it just gets rid of having to give class names to things and has some nice little utility functions as well such as `grid-cols-x`.
