Re: [csswg-drafts] [mediaqueries-5] redundant media feature (#5359)

The CSS Working Group just discussed `redundancy`, and agreed to the following:

* `RESOLVED: remove light-level`

<details><summary>The full IRC log of that discussion</summary>
&lt;fantasai> Topic: redundancy<br>
&lt;fantasai> github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5359<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: Talked about contrast a lot already, fact that we have prefers-contrast is established<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: and forced-colors is established as well<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: and also have prefers-color-scheme to pick between light and dark<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: so this has settled down a lot compared to earlier<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: what we did have early on was a light-level feature with 'washed | dim | normal'<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: to help with LCD screen outdoors or dark room, allow switching color scheme and/or contrast to improve readability<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: outdoors on e-ink doesn't end up washed, for example<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: that as intent of MQ<br>
&lt;astearns> ack florian<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: But I think we don't need this anymore<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: UA could respond to this via existing prefers-contrast / prefers-color-scheme<br>
&lt;jensimmons> present-<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: so I don't think we need this thing anymore<br>
&lt;astearns> ack chris<br>
&lt;fantasai> chris: I'm of two minds for this.<br>
&lt;fantasai> chris: On one hand, that's not the only uses of this feautre<br>
&lt;fantasai> chris: but there's a light levels API that gives you info on lux /etc.<br>
&lt;fantasai> chris: which allows adjusting the gamut (gamma?)<br>
&lt;fantasai> chris: so I think this is not useful, and we should let those use cases be solved by the API<br>
&lt;fantasai> TabAtkins: MQ in general aren't useful for fine gradation, they're broad categories<br>
&lt;fantasai> TabAtkins: that said, in agreement with Florian<br>
&lt;fantasai> TabAtkins: if we specify that UA should provide ability to map light levels to contrast levels<br>
&lt;fantasai> TabAtkins: happy to assume that<br>
&lt;fantasai> florian: I would like to remove this MQ and add some notes to other MQ "don't forget, you can respond to these environmental situations using this MQ"<br>
&lt;fantasai> RESOLVED: remove light-level<br>
&lt;chris> s/gamut (gamma?)/overall system gamma<br>
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