The premise for #22376 was that if we removed the `max-width` and `flex` properties, we could use the column classes as `width` utilities. The problem that I didn't remember at the time is that column classes have horizontal `padding` on them. This doesn't work for setting `width`. Perhaps more importantly, this causes #22649—the automatic sizing of columns is broken with the absence of `flex` styles.

/cc @sachinsinghi