> Yeah, I agree that webp looks better for many of the images. For most of them it comes back to the subjective issue that webp (and VP9) choose to err on the side of blurring detail they can't encode, while jpeg XL (and x264, etc) try to keep all the detail they can at the expense of more artifacts. There are very vocal proponents of both approaches, and personally I think it varies by the image content.
In VP9/WebP this wasn't a "choice" so much as they were optimizing for good looking marketing graphs instead of pictures. You get blurry images if you target a metric like PSNR instead of actually looking at your output. x264 does have a few different tunings, the film one will try to turn detail to noise and the animation one won't.
In VP9/WebP this wasn't a "choice" so much as they were optimizing for good looking marketing graphs instead of pictures. You get blurry images if you target a metric like PSNR instead of actually looking at your output. x264 does have a few different tunings, the film one will try to turn detail to noise and the animation one won't.