Use combobox as the element name for the main CSS nodes of
GtkComboBox and GtkComboBoxText. Add the .combo style class
to the button and entry. in a GtkComboBox or GtkComboBoxText.
That way, the GTK engine doesn't think that the general .button CSS
might potentially apply to it.
And because combobox button is overly complex and stupid, it cannot be
cached.
So buttons thought they cannot ever cache anything because they might
suddenly end up inside a combobox without noticing and then they'd need
to round their corners differently. Of course they're just regular
"Remove" buttons like all the other 100s of "Remove" buttons in
gnome-software. But hey, better not cache anything for them and
recompute their CSS every time the :hover state changes on one of the
rows.
Instead of putting it inside the button manually, put it there properly
by adding a box containing the cell view and the arrow.
Do the same thing in list mode, instead of creating an event box that
tries to behave as a button.