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I had the same thought. Media queries to support different... media seems like the exact proper use case.

It is when then query doesn't query what you want to know but something that happens to correlate with the thing that you actually need.

No, it's not a hack. You can query different things about the user agent and serve different CSS based on those queries. Anyone calling it a hack is ignorant, it's a necessary part of producing responsive designs.