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UI designers that are allowed to roam free will often NOT want these new default modals, menus, buttons, etc. even if it was their jam pre-default. This will help, but consistency seems to be seen as a weakness in UI rather than a feature we should all strive for.

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Consistency of style in the general sense is what designers wish to avoid. Consistency of browser behaviour and default style, on the other hand, is the grail from which creativity can flourish unbounded on the web.

If you’d read the article, you’d have read that the new popover element allows CUSTOM elements, like designers love. Just without JS.

Again, my point is that there will be requests for features that will still be beyond these new features such as needing Javascript. And again, these are great and useful advancements.

For example, the `@starting-style` allows for a starting value, but if the UI requires that it's conditional, then that's likely JS. It's toward the end of the article. You may not have gotten to it.

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