The big problem with highly tuned formats is that they make a lot of choices for the user. This works well when the format is used exactly as designed, but tha

The big problem with highly tuned formats is that they make a lot of choices for the user. This works well when the format is used exactly as designed, but that is often not the case. With a tif I can pick exactly the compression, bit depth, color mode, tiling etc. that I need for the specific data.