[lonjil]

Mate, Apple has been using HEIC for over 6 years, but they didn't add it to Safari until less than a year ago. And Apple doesn't even want you to use HEIC on the web! They added it to Safari so that app devs can use it in WebViews.

[stephenr]

... So why does it need to "go away" then?

[lonjil]

You'll have to ask the person who wanted that.