It is surely better in the long term. AV1 encoders need a lot of work still to be usable though in real time, which is critical for something like WebRTC. For

It is surely better in the long term. AV1 encoders need a lot of work still to be usable though in real time, which is critical for something like WebRTC. For example, rav1e still needs multithreading support: https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/issues/132 https://github.com/xiph/rav1e/issues/132 And once encoders are ironed out, hardware support is also needed.