Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-grid-3] Masonry Switch Syntax (#12022)

As an author, I'm opposed to using the word 'stack' (but other authors are available).

Stack to me implies a _single_ column of boxes 'stacked' on each other. See, for example, [how it's described in the Every Layout book.](https://every-layout.dev/layouts/stack/). If the inner boxes were [laid out in rows rather than columns](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/#row-masonry-container), describing it as stacked seems strange and unintuitive to me.

If we used brickwork terms, the row or column that the bricks are laid out is called a 'course'. That said, I don't think `grid-course` would be very intuitive either.

For that reason, @fantasai's suggestion of `grid-collapsed` is the one that makes the most sense to me. @tabatkins, if we want the name here to link up with the name of the cross axis in the spec, I'd even be up for referring it it as the 'collapsed axis'.

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