Google's AOM conflicts of interest aside, the switch makes sense to me. File sizes are still king, for both storage and for Web Vitals -- the latter especially matters on slower cell connections.

Though it does cheer me up how the "art software" and photography big-wigs (e.g. Adobe) recently threw weight behind JPEG-XL <3

Now I just wonder if there's any easy way to have AV1 thumbnails show up easily by default in Windows 11