What you’re describing is one of the possible workarounds, yes. Veterans have become accustomed to doing these things over the years. But generally speaking I

What you’re describing is one of the possible workarounds, yes. Veterans have become accustomed to doing these things over the years. But generally speaking I think that this kind of feature is very useful. It conveys intent, so browsers can optimise things if they choose, and developers get to have cleaner code for free. Secondly there’s plenty of devs and future devs out there who appreciate that there’s a clear way to do this. Workarounds always have caveats and don’t necessarily play nicely with other features.