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The issue is inline images become ads eventually.
True enough... but I wonder how this would play out. For example, linked images could also be ads, or hold ads embedded in the same image content you wanted to see, and you don't know that until you click on the image.
Leaving aside ad-blockers for one moment, non-inline images move the unit of atomicity from a whole page with all its embedded images, to a single image you wanted to see. Clicking gets you an image which can be anywhere between 0-100% ads. Bringing ad-blockers back into the picture, if the unit of atomicity is a whole page and most images are either 0 or 100% ads, it seems far easier to block ads on a link by link basis. If ads end up embedded into the same images you want to see in a more 80/20% mixture in the image, it's more difficult to block sub-regions, and the advertiser could vary the subregion randomly.
Ah man. It feels like there is nothing advertisers cannot ruin if it becomes popular.
Plus not having it being image centric makes the web idea based like it was before during the arpanet days. Images bring with it the Memeification of communication and other low effort content.