I'm not sure how the benefit could be considered small, being able to perform lossless compression of JPEGs alone is such a massive benefit. In my testing I do every now and then which consists of ripping thousands of images from various websites (image boards, scraping from websites I visit) I regularly get 20-40% file size savings when transcoding JPEG to JXL. These aren't some small 256x256 icons or cherry picked image sets of 25 pictures people love to test. This is as much as a real world use test one could possibly get for web testing.
Completely ignoring the potential of replacing PNG or WEBP, Completely ignoring actually competing against AVIF. The benefits of JXL when it comes to losslessly saving space for pre-existing images is so massively significant, it's hard to believe that this single feature alone doesn't meet the bar of worth.
> The benefits of JXL when it comes to losslessly saving space for pre-existing images is so massively significant, it's hard to believe that this single feature alone doesn't meet the bar of worth.
The old Google that cared deeply about the web would have been all over this. This current regime--not so much.
It's probably no coincidence that many of the folks who were huge advocates for the web are no longer there.
Completely ignoring the potential of replacing PNG or WEBP, Completely ignoring actually competing against AVIF. The benefits of JXL when it comes to losslessly saving space for pre-existing images is so massively significant, it's hard to believe that this single feature alone doesn't meet the bar of worth.