[lifthrasiir]

The benefit from zstd is however so great that I even copied the zstd binary to some server I was managing but couldn't easily compile it from scratch. Seriously, bundling zstd binary is that worthy by now.

[lxgr]

If you can control both sides, definitely go for it!

But in many cases, we unfortunately can't (gzip/Deflate is baked into tons of non-updateable hardware devices for example).