What is the status of video acceleration on the desktop, wrt surfing the web or playing videos from the browser or a player? I used the various Raspberries as m

What is the status of video acceleration on the desktop, wrt surfing the web or playing videos from the browser or a player? I used the various Raspberries as main media player with Kodi for years with great results, but the desktop experience using Raspbian+XFCE has always been awful, I mean the slugginess due to lack of video acceleration when playing videos, which otherwise is present and works great in Kodi; normal desktop usage was fine. It should be related to the video acceleration being among the closed blobs that not all distros include, but I thought it had been already reverse engineered before. My last attempt at it was about 6 months ago though.