99.9% of authors require a parent to encapsulate it’s floated child(ren), by default. Unfortunately, without utilizing one of the hacks I speak of in the post, this doesn’t happen. Therefore, the aim of the article is to describe present methods that authors have been forced to adopt in order to achieve their intention, and to also an offer informal proposal in the form of a new control, whose primary attribute is to contain floats in the way that BFCs currently do, whilst exibiting no other behavior. There are other modules that will supersede the float model, so the proposal of a new control should be seen as an interim solution, until it’s realistic for authors to adopt these new modules.

If you don’t believe there’s an issue, then I suggest participating in one of the current discussions on ww-style@w3.org and voicing your opinion there, too.