Tailwind ships tons of unused boilerplate CSS

[l-Fingon-l]

Discussed in #7538

^{Originally posted by l-Fingon-l February 20, 2022}
Is it just me or does Tailwind in fact ship a lot of useless CSS?

The main page clearly states:

Tailwind automatically removes all unused CSS when building for production

However, it does not seem to be the case for me. I have just literally tried copying the example above but ended up with a huge pile of unpurged and basically unused utility boilerplate CSS:

8KB:

The --minify option just eliminates the spaces but all the unnecessary CSS is still there.

Is it just me doing something wrong or is it a bug? Would love to hear any ideas from you