This still sounds like a cool feature but I'm not sure the benefit-to-cost tradeoff works out. Once we launch inert-viewport/Viewport API we'll see how much confusion or demand there would be for something like this. That, or maybe an intern project?

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This would be a significant amount of work that we can't take on in the near future. It's possible we can revisit this in the future but lets close this for now.