[Mr_Minderbinder]

Why does the current design paradigm in image coding formats emphasise supporting as many features as possible in order to have “one image format to rule them all”? You do not see this in audio and does anybody think that Opus and FLAC should be combined into one format? Does the fact that Opus does not support lossless encoding make it worse?

[upbeat_general]

From a user perspective it is nice to know that the person decoding will likely support a given format, both now and in the future.

More use cases for a single popular format makes this more likely.