Re: [w3c/webcomponents] Provide a lightweight mechanism to add styles to a custom element (#468)

> Why does having a style element inside a shadow tree not solve this problem?

Honestly, from the perspective of an outsider who doesn't develop browsers -- a mere "web developer" -- yet library author working on http://infamous.io, putting styles inside a shadow tree in order to style the shadow host (thus breaking out of the shadow encapsulation back into the light tree) seems exactly like a hack.

Specifying styles directly onto the custom element definition is much cleaner because the style is associated directly with the element being styled (not with it's shadow root), and I appreciate the cognitive load required to work with that much more (@rniwa) in terms of code clarity, separation of concerns, and maintainability. This is what led me to ask #490.

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