Consider using a source generator to generate scoped css files

[pranavkm]

The compiler is considering adding a feature that would allow source generators to produce additional artifacts that are written to disk. This would line up nicely with the rewriting CSS that Razor SDK currently performs to produce the final output for scoped css files. Reasons to consider this:

a) RewriteCss is the only command that is executed as part of the rzc command. By turning it into a source generator we would remove usages of rzc entirely from our build and consolidate all our previously out-of-process MSBuild operations into source generators

b) This might play nicely with hot reload that we want to support for scoped css files. Our current plan for supporting this involves launching msbuild as part of dotnet-watch to update these files.

c) We think it might improve build perf since it involves fewer separate process, less JITing involved (the compiler has to already load Razor dlls for razor code generation) etc.

Tentative docs for this feature: https://gist.github.com/CyrusNajmabadi/8cf5426f772ccf5e58bea7804c564cd4

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[captainsafia]

The compiler team has an experimental build of this feature that we can use to implement this. It is targeted for release in 16.10/end of preview4.

[captainsafia]

Marking as blocked since we need the ArtifactsProducer API for this.