[crazygringo]

No disagreements.

I do suspect that at some point we will make a major compression breakthrough that is based on something more "psychovisual". Not Gaussian splatting, but something more akin to that -- something that directly understands geometric areas of gradating colors as primitive objects, textures as primitives, and motion as assigned to those rather than to pixels.

On the other hand, it may very well be a form of AI-based compression that does this, rather than us explicitly designing it.