[greenavocado]

That's because people have allowed the accumulation of power and control by Big Tech. Features in and capabilities of end user operating systems and browsers are gate kept by a handful of people in Big Tech. There is no free market there. Winners are picked by politics, not merit. Switching costs are extreme due to vendor lock in and carefully engineered friction.

The justification for WebP in Chrome over JPEG-XL was pure hand waving nonsense not technical merit. The reality is they would not dare cede any control or influence to the JPEG-XL working group.

Hell the EU is CONSIDERING mandatory attestation driven by whitelisted signed phone firmwares for certain essential activities. Freedom of choice is an illusion.

[google234123]

Webp is a lot older than jpg xl, right?

[spookie]

It was behind a feature flag and then removed? I guess that's where the skepticism comes from

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

It's also because supporting features is work that takes time away from other bug fixes and other features