Interactive Rating Component with TailwindCSS

There is one thing I was struggling with: the rating choice elements. From semantic viewpoints, it's better to write them with radio inputs. I tried doing that in a separate branch, and it was hard to style them, especially putting the numbers inside the circle. I found a "workaround" for it on stackoverflow but it feels "hacky", and I prefer not doing that because it would be hard to maintain, so I went back using <span>.

What would you do?