You could say that a lot about how web components work. If you want to see some of the mess in sorting the spec. out, check out the discussions in the csswg-dra

You could say that a lot about how web components work. If you want to see some of the mess in sorting the spec. out, check out the discussions in the csswg-drafts repo, for instance: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1915 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1915 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6466 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6466 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10094 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10094