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> What's so bad about WebP?

WebP is based on VP8, which is now obsolete. It was meant to be a H.264 competitor, a generation behind H.265 and VP9/VP10. WebP compression efficiency is much closer to JPEG than H.265.

This format beats WebP by a margin wider than WebP was smaller than JPEG.

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Most devices still encode and decode far more H264 and JPEG than newer generations. We shouldn't be stuck with the horse and buggy because we're waiting for cars to be autonomous. WebP is superior to JPEG and the most widely available alternative.

And people today still use jpeg routinely, so I'm not sure any of that is really a killing blow.

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