Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-4] font-stretch is unfortunately named (#551)

IMO, `font-width` is the only reasonable choice, because that's the established terminology (in particular, in OpenType).

Now that we have variation-font support in browsers, it's possible for the `font-stretch` property to be directly connected to [the Width axis](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/typography/opentype/spec/dvaraxistag_wdth) in variable fonts: https://codepen.io/jfkthame/pen/jOXdXpY?editors=1100. The naming mismatch is painful.

We should have aliased it to `font-width` years ago. Having failed to do that, the best time to do it is now.

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