I agree with you, in principle, BUT there's always a tradeoff to be had. In this case, I don't really see it. As a typical user, I never want my favicon to be

I agree with you, in principle, BUT there's always a tradeoff to be had. In this case, I don't really see it. As a typical user, I never want my favicon to be more than ~1MB. More interesting effects may be done, but can be done in javascript, for example.