Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-anchor-position-1] inset-inline-start: anchor(start) is confusing (#13734)

@tabatkins I think this is going to trip people up a lot. It's totally not at all obvious that `inset-inline-start: anchor(start)` can give you any one of these combinations:
- `left: anchor(left)`
- `right: anchor(right)`
- `left: anchor(right)`
- `right: anchor(left)`

You're matching directional keywords in your code. The fact that you can get a mismatched result is not going to be expected and I suspect will result in user errors far more often than it will result in the correct thing. I mean, I can't even think of a case where this would be the desired result.

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