> And will we even have settled on a single successor before next-gen codecs like h.266 disrupt it all again? I don't think there is great risk of getting disr

> And will we even have settled on a single successor before next-gen codecs like h.266 disrupt it all again? I don't think there is great risk of getting disrupted by next-gen codecs because the gen-to-gen improvements for stills will be so marginal, especially compared to the improvement from jpeg to avif/heif. So there is little motivation to iterate there, especially considering the computational costs. I see whatever we settle on will probably last next 20 years. So taking few years to settle feels fine in my books