[TacticalCoder]

I don't know about other platforms but .webp is very well supported on Linux. I've got .webp files showing up just fine from Emacs and picture viewers and ImageMagick's tools do support .webp just fine.

Lossless WEBP is smaller than optimized/crushed PNG files.

And I'd say that's quite a feat, which may explain the complexity of the format.

So WEBP may be complicated but if my OS supports it by default, where's the problem? It's not as if I needed to write another encoder/decoder myself.

[seba_dos1]

If you want to handle the format by yourself from scratch it's super complex indeed, but OTOH everyone just uses libwebp which has a very simple API, especially compared to something like libpng. I have added WebP support via libwebp into Allegro 5 myself and didn't even have to stop to think, it was as straightforward as it gets - and implementing animated WebPs wasn't hard either.