[andthenwhat]

That goal might already have been somewhat lost years ago. The video almost everyone after the editors watch has been re-encoded at least once (more likely twice) with one or more different codecs that definitely change the character of the video from that of the source. Any same source content will already look noticeably different depending one which service or provider you’re using, since they each have their own opinionated video content encoding and distribution pipelines. If you’re talking about archival storage in the sense of preserving masters, then I definitely agree and the film grain removal should be disabled in the encoder, so the decoder-side synthesis won’t happen. Thankfully, that’s very easy to do (for example, libaom-av1 encoder in ffmpeg supports denoise-noise-level parameter set to zero to disable those scary parts.)

[ancientworldnow]

No one is archiving with av1 and no one ever will. It's all film out, DPX sequences, and prores 4444 for the vast majority of things I've encountered as a post professional.

[ollifi]

Even the editors don’t usually use the original files but they get transcoded to proxy format for editing.