This still doesn't explain why they cheaped out on the media engine side. While I can see a justification for the lack of 4K H264 encode support (kind of point

This still doesn't explain why they cheaped out on the media engine side. While I can see a justification for the lack of 4K H264 encode support (kind of pointless for a card at this level of performance), removing the AV1 decoder and H265/HEVC encoder is something I don't understand. This makes the card completely useless for both game streaming and media creation for no discernible reason.