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JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going
(cloudinary.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
So I agree with your sentiment for the most part. Mainly, it’s frustrating to see all of these new image standards come out which somehow compete with each other due to lack of browser support.
That said 44k isn’t peanuts. That’s a huge reduction, especially on lower end connection speeds.