Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-gaps-1] Dropping decorations for suppressed gaps (#13754)

To expand further on my comment in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13754#issuecomment-4179199615, I think what the default should be here may come down more to what is easier for authors to understand and debug as opposed to what may be more common.

This is a similar debate to what was discussed/resolved in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13477#issuecomment-4164624610. In that issue, we felt that it won't be as common to always show all decorations in the case of grid, but we decided showing all decorations made sense as the default, since it shows everything to the author, and they can then adjust further based on the decorations they want to show up.

In the current issue, it seems we have some agreement that dropping decorations at the wrap points will be more common for authoring use cases, but not always, and dropping decorations by default may be confusing for authors, especially when first learning how to use the feature. It would be harder to debug why those decorations didn't show up, vs understanding why a decoration didn't get dropped, and how they can opt into that behavior if desired.

As a result, in the same vein as https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13477#issuecomment-4164624610, I would propose to not drop decorations by defaul. However, we should add a way for authors to opt into this behavior, since there are compelling authoring use cases for wanting this behavior.

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