At the top of the Mathematical Expressions/Serialization section, we have this note:
ISSUE 3
This section is still under discussion.
(And likewise this is in the published W3C version.)
There are a few issues with this, as an implementer:
- What aspects are undecided?
- Is it even still under discussion? Judging by the URL that discussion is from almost 9 years ago.
- If there are still parts of this that need ironing out, excluding non-csswg implementers (unintentionally or not) means fewer people are able to collaborate the remaining problems.
It's true that css-values-4 is in working draft status, but in practice, calc() has long been in common use and websites (and WPT) rely on specific serialization behaviour.