[css-text-4] Way to only hyphenate when word is broken in “emergency situations”?

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#hyphenation

Sometimes, the best way to handle overlong words is overflow-wrap: break-word. Unfortunately, by default it breaks a word as soon as possible, instead of the intelligent break positions of hyphens.

Setting hyphens: auto; does hyphenate breaks from overflow-wrap, but it also breaks and hyphenates words that don’t need it:

(from dassur.ma/things/when-workers/. I have to pop open devtools to disable hyphens whenever I read his blog.)

I find hyphenation difficult and distracting to read, but I appreciate their signal that a word has been broken when it’s necessary.

I would love a value like hyphens: overflow that doesn’t needlessly hyphenate, but intelligently breaks words when necessary.

Start with the CSS Text 4 hyphenation section linked in the issue, then compare the reported behavior of overflow-wrap: break-word and hyphens: auto using the linked example. Done means reaching and documenting a CSS Working Group resolution for conditional hyphenation, including the behavior of any proposed value.