This is confusing. In the screen recording, I see two popovers, _both_ of which appear when clicking.

Yet I would view a hint as one that appears simply on hover: a tooltip.

The article jumps ahead "But wait, didn’t clicking on the hint popover close the auto one? ... Because you’re inducing an action (click), it activates the light-dismiss of the auto popover. This is almost certainly not what you want when you’re creating a hint popover." but completely omits what a hint is supposed to be in the first place and whether this actually is a hint. As far as I can tell, this hint type of popover is not actually behaving like a desktop-style tooltip hint.

I have whys not whats. Why we waited so much(years!) for such api as a browser built in? Why I feel it overwhelming/not well thought off for such simple use case? I still feel like including a 3rd party library and instantiating a tooltip to be more straight forward, if anything these libraries are built upon years of know how and we don't need to wait for a browser vendor to add a new attribute on his own for a marginal improvement. Marginal improvement one would understand immediately right? No "hint" is a not a simple tooltip. And why the heck we would ever need a table grid to explain a feature that should be simple? I'm so sick of the web platform and its inefficiencies