I find most of this useless/overcomplicated.
> Cascade layers
Feels like we only need this because cascading works less and less well once you start to include multiple frameworks or pieces thereof. At some point people find themselves in a jungle of !important. If you keep the cascade small and clean, you'll most likely not need that.
> Container queries
Probably the designs I have to implement are not complicated enough, but I could work very well with media queries so far.
Also this blurs the lines between markup and styling furthermore. Now you are defining IDs/classes in CSS which will make the code harder to debug.
> accent-color
Yeah, this is kind of nice. On the other hand we should not forget where the "this always gets styled by the system" comes from: Accessibility. With accent-color I can now totally easy screw up various kinds of inputs in the name of corporate design.
> Color level 4 and 5 & hwb()
Oh come on, this must be a joke. Color management is VERY hard to do, now we put more of that into CSS. But yes, advertisements can then be delivered with a wide gamut colorspace for more impact. Great.
> inert
What? This is just as bad as highjacking the scrollbar behaviour. Now you can make your website behave modal although there's no modal. Feels like another "right clicks are forbidden"-level when your paragraphs are set to inert and you can't interact with those anymore.
> Viewport units
More units of measurement is totally what CSS was missing. /s
> :has()
The parent selector looks like the only useful thing to me from that list. It will (theoretically) help clearing up the markup mess because you need less containers etc. if you want to style surrounding elements differently depending on their child content.
> Cascade layers
Feels like we only need this because cascading works less and less well once you start to include multiple frameworks or pieces thereof. At some point people find themselves in a jungle of !important. If you keep the cascade small and clean, you'll most likely not need that.
> Container queries
Probably the designs I have to implement are not complicated enough, but I could work very well with media queries so far.
Also this blurs the lines between markup and styling furthermore. Now you are defining IDs/classes in CSS which will make the code harder to debug.
> accent-color
Yeah, this is kind of nice. On the other hand we should not forget where the "this always gets styled by the system" comes from: Accessibility. With accent-color I can now totally easy screw up various kinds of inputs in the name of corporate design.
> Color level 4 and 5 & hwb()
Oh come on, this must be a joke. Color management is VERY hard to do, now we put more of that into CSS. But yes, advertisements can then be delivered with a wide gamut colorspace for more impact. Great.
> inert
What? This is just as bad as highjacking the scrollbar behaviour. Now you can make your website behave modal although there's no modal. Feels like another "right clicks are forbidden"-level when your paragraphs are set to inert and you can't interact with those anymore.
> Viewport units
More units of measurement is totally what CSS was missing. /s
> :has()
The parent selector looks like the only useful thing to me from that list. It will (theoretically) help clearing up the markup mess because you need less containers etc. if you want to style surrounding elements differently depending on their child content.