I wouldn’t call it a dead end. It’s the kind of small discoveries that, when put together with all the past and future small discoveries, will eventually lead to progress.

The issue with jpegxl is that in reality jpeg is fine for 99% of images on the internet.

If you need lossless, you can have PNG.

“But JPEGXL can save 0,18mb in compression!” Shut up nerd everyone has broadband it doesn’t matter