Hard to argue that having this functionality in the type itself is better than having to do so in images. It has big advantages over SVGs, as well. I can copy s

Hard to argue that having this functionality in the type itself is better than having to do so in images. It has big advantages over SVGs, as well. I can copy styled text, for example. So it's not like this would empower people to do ugly web design that they couldn't already do. Per your point, I prefer CSS animations to having a blink tag, and people have managed to avoid using those too much the last 20 years.