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I’m not often flabbergasted, but this was an incomprehensible move… so many alternative routes to achieving the same (ahem) intent *without* retrospectively butchering people’s sites

the message here is basically 'don't use new platform features, even if they're small progressive enhancements, until they're sufficiently widespread that even we wouldn't dare break them' which i'm not sure is a good outcome for anyone, including them

Exactly. Vandalism is the mot juste.

Correction: this hasn't shipped. It's available behind a feature flag so that you can test things. So no, a bunch of Googlers did not vandalise your site … See this thread for details: bsky.app/profile/bram...

Also: we didn't initially plan this ::interest-button at all, but other browser vendors complained about interest invokers not working on touch devices (should they even?) and this is the compromise we settled on … and it's clear from testing that it's not working, so it's back to the drawing board.

Good question. Should they even? I don't think so. If I wanted a button with a popover that also happens to trigger on hover, I'd build that instead of reaching for interest invokers. Not all features work in every context, they never have, and that's fine. Web authors must take responsibility.