One of the reasons GIF's are popular is that it's a format with nearly universal support, with no codecs to fuss about. Anyone can see a GIF, and anyone can edi

One of the reasons GIF's are popular is that it's a format with nearly universal support, with no codecs to fuss about. Anyone can see a GIF, and anyone can edit a GIF. The proposed "improvement" offers the key limitations of GIF without the key advantages, and lacks many features. Like, what about variable frame rate? Transparency? Not fuzzing out the pixels in pixel-art? The last one specifically: a great use-case for GIF is capturing screen animations (see https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/). Video codecs aren't optimized for this - you won't see the comparison for such GIF's on the linked webpage.