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My hot take is that browsers should never have enabled you to specify an exact font. The web would be much better off if it was accepted that the server could

• ironmagma 1y ago
  That’s how it was for over a decade, with the browser quirks and inconsistent behavior. Why is that good?
• throwanem 1y ago
  This works when users broadly understand the concept of a user agent, which has not ever really been the case in the general sense, and indeed we observe a historical trend toward increase in the conceptual distance between usership and agency. Your hot take reduces to that the web should never have become a product, which is equally defensible and in my view the formulation more likely productive of interestingly nuanced discussion. For example, we could critique the Gopher and Gemini crowds' sort of conceptually Sapir-Whorf-esque approach to at least notional redress, or ask what effect clientside inference might come to have.