Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-cascade-5] Any needs to avoid other layers overriding name-defining @-rules? (#6461)

I don't see this as an issue specific to cascade layers, or one that layers need to solve. It is already possible for name-defining rules to override each other, and layers make it simpler to describe the _order_ in which they override each other. If the override is intentional, then layers are working as designed. If the override is _accidental_, then it's not a new problem specific to layering. It seems more like a namespace/scope issue.

- If we want to add `!important` at-rules, I think that's an interesting idea, but somewhat tangential to this feature. 
- I would not like to add layer-scoped names. I think that approach blurs the goals. Layers are not a mechanism for locking in particular references to avoid conflicts (that's a scope issue), they are a mechanism for clearly defining an order of cascade precedence – which is working successfully in the example. Authors can move their animations into the appropriate layers so that the proper one is applied.

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