Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Reconsider the initial value of the `text-autospace` property (#12386)

Thank you for the great feedback, @nt1m. I agree that we should think about future authors too, but I failed to write about them.

The future authors also need to opt-in regardless of the initial-value, because they have to change their writing style by stopping the tradition since 1980 and ignoring the required rules in the style guides, or add the `replace` keyword.

If they were to decide whether to opt-in or not before start writing and change their writing style accordingly, declaring their decision clearly looks like a good thing to me.

Let me also note another difference from `text-spacing-trim` where everyone agrees turning it on is a progression. For `text-autospace`, the more modern, the more people started to prefer no spaces. I guess "prefer on" is still more than half of authors, especially on paper and for professional printing typographers, but the ratio is changing gradually. For example, [a style guide from JETF](https://www.jtf.jp/tips/styleguide) removed the space in their version 3.0, published in 2019.

From these, I think `no-autospace` is also future looking.

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