Re: [community-group] Add support for simple duration values (#342)

I appreciate this proposal! It's very well-articulated.

Here's some feedback:

1. My hypothesis is that having _some_ types with shorthands, but other types without, could create some confusion.
2. Separating out units and values was done for a few reasons ([see original thread](https://github.com/design-tokens/community-group/issues/121)); one of the main ones was parser simplicity/precision. Bringing in unitless values here increases parser complexity.
3. I don't believe this is actually backwards-compatible — a tool that follows the 2025.10 spec would consider the unitless token invalid; so introducing this syntax would be a breaking change.

Given the above, I'd recommend against adopting the proposal as-is.

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