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

My general preference would be to keep `normal` as the initial value, for the sake of future authors, as discussed in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12386#issuecomment-2997240401: good rendering by default with straightforward markup seems desirable to me.

I also hope that the performance concerns can be mitigated; @kojiishi  pointed out that Chrome's implementation can avoid most of the performance hits for Latin scripts, and hopefully that can eventually be extended to other scripts too. And if possible, it would be better not to constrain design decision by solvable performance constraints.

As for the risk highlighted by @masayuki-nakano that some things that used to fit in a tight box no longer would, I don't have data on it, and hope it turns out not to be a problem.

All in all, as long as all variants are possible, I don't think I'm so attached to the initial value that I'd object to a change, but I'd prefer if we could keep it the way it is.

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