:hover’s days are numbered. It has little time left in this world.
I am serious.
Here are the main reasons why:
It doesn’t exist on touch dev...
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Don't they also get focus?
But overall I agree with your sentiment. Hover will probably never go away entirely but it's certainly decreasing in importance.
Yeah they do get :focus, which can be a reasonable approximation for :hover for keyboard users.