I could say the same thing about H.264. Why should we bother making better video codecs for general movie viewing use? Let it go. We can just add more data laye

I could say the same thing about H.264. Why should we bother making better video codecs for general movie viewing use? Let it go. We can just add more data layers to Blu-rays. And it's not like JPEG or ASCII or UTF-8 or anything we use today is going to suddenly disappear if we add new browser support. Why not strive for excellence?