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W3’s validator has not been updated in more than 10 years and it did not work correctly even back than.
Could bring that up with the devs but it hasn’t been the early 2000s for a long time, nobody seems to care as long as it works.
Works is different from works consistently across all browsers, or even versions of the same browser. I know most web developers got into their heads that only Chrome (and maybe Firefox if they are feeling generous) matters, but open source projects shouldn’t incentivise this.
Because HTML rules are the tools of the bourgeois. /s