From my understanding (and the biased content at https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html ), lzip is higher compression than

From my understanding (and the biased content at https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html ), lzip is higher compression than zip and gzip. It uses LZMA, which makes it essentially the same as xz (which itself is 7zip without the tar-like functionality). The difference seems to be that the metadata in lzip makes some smarter choices, which reduces redundancy and makes recovering from corruption easier compared to xz. xz is more widely installed, so it's a case of Worse Is Better.