Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-flexbox] content size suggestion of image flex items (#6693)

I liked @aethanyc's suggestion on IRC about how to clarify this:

> I think the transfer size suggestion and content size suggestion can be merged into one concept, and explicit saying that stretched cross-size should be used in content size suggestion.

I share @aethanyc's interpretation that [transferred size suggestion](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox/#min-size-auto) is redundant with content size suggestion as they are defined today.

This redundancy contributed to all of our confusion ("if the content size suggestion is 50px then transferred size suggestion is redundant... but why would transferred size suggestion exist if it were redundant? are we sure content size suggestion is 50px?" -- i.e. the [canon against surplusage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_interpretation#:~:text=Rule%20against%20surplusage) led us astray)

If transferred size suggestion is **not** a no-op (meaning @aethanyc and I are mistaken) then it would be helpful for us implementers to have the spec include an example in which it makes a difference.

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