> I don’t know how we found ourselves with the best formats for data recovery/robustness fading into obscurity - i.e lzip and to lesser extent bzip2. Because m

> I don’t know how we found ourselves with the best formats for data recovery/robustness fading into obscurity - i.e lzip and to lesser extent bzip2. Because monotonically increasing technological progress is a commonly-believed fairy tale. Nowadays, capabilities are lost as often as they're gained. Either because the people who designed the successor are being opinionated or just focusing on something else.