I agree with you on the shabby state of CSS support, but it's hard to see how more font options will be bad for design. Horrible designs will always exist, so

I agree with you on the shabby state of CSS support, but it's hard to see how more font options will be bad for design. Horrible designs will always exist, so the fact that they have more fonts to choose from won't make them worse. It'll just make them bad in new ways. For good designers, though, wider support of more fonts is wonderful. There's a reason that rich print typography developed in the first place. And at the very least, we can begin to kiss sIFR goodbye.