[EuiPopover] Are 2 wrapper components necessary?

[cchaos]

<div class="euiPopover">
  <div class="euiPopover__anchor">
    <button />
  </div>
</div>

I remember we were originally positioning the popover with CSS making the anchor wrapper necessary, but is it still?

[snide]

Given that the popover itself has inline block, my guess is the __anchor is no longer needed.

[thompsongl]

It's not needed for layout or style as far as I can tell. However, we use it to host a ref and allow consumers to pass classes directly to it.
We'd need to do the legwork to verify that any classes currently being passed could stand to be passed instead to the button (or are needed at all).
We'd also need to update EuiButton to use forwardRef for the default case and indicate that any custom anchor passed to EuiPopover also needs to be able to accept a ref.

[cchaos]

I just find myself needing a blocked display of the popover and having to give to classes with display: block in order to do so. Always feels so cumbersome. However, I already got so fed up that I just created a prop #2112

[cchaos]

I'd like to make this a long-term goal. It's something that I continue to fight with constantly. This and the EuiTooltip.

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[cee-chen]

I'm going to re-open this as this annoys me personally 😅