I don't think so, if we are to believe arewecompressedyet.com, Daala is on par with x265 quality-wise. But they are now sharing their technologies to make Allia

I don't think so, if we are to believe arewecompressedyet.com, Daala is on par with x265 quality-wise. But they are now sharing their technologies to make Alliance for Open Media's AV1, the next gen patent free codec. They've been talks about using Daala as a still image codec but I don't know if it's gonna happen or not.