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

Thank you @sakupi01 for very interesting data, they are very helpful. I also found that Japanese Wikipedia doesn't insert the space characters. I agree I should correct my view on how much impacts enabling auto-space has. It does have a quite big web-compat impacts for existing pages.

Now, there are two ways to read these data:
1. Authors stopped inserting space characters because they hope someday the platforms to do it automatically.
2. Authors stopped inserting space characters because the space looks excessive or weird.

The [feedback to the blog post (Japanese)](https://devadjust.exblog.jp/29549895/#:~:text=%E7%96%B2%E3%82%8C%E3%81%BE%E3%81%9B%E3%82%93,%E3%81%A9%E3%81%86%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%8B%EF%BC%9F) looks like the latter to me.

If we can assume that Japanese authors are divided to two groups:
1. Half of Japanese authors insert space characters, because they want the spacing but the platform doesn't do it.
2. Half of Japanese authors don't insert space characters, because they don't want spacing there.

Then enabling the auto-space by default makes no benefits to the group 1, and troubles the group 2. This seems to me that it strengthen the idea that `no-autospace` is the better initial value, even without the performance issues.

I hope the discussion takes the fact that the 3 native Japanese prefer `no-autospace` as the initial value into account, for their preferred style, web-compat, and performance.

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