Given the context, simplicity and control. I assume part of the inefficiency can be reclaimed by compressing the assets separately, although the lack of filteri

Given the context, simplicity and control. I assume part of the inefficiency can be reclaimed by compressing the assets separately, although the lack of filtering would hurt. Encoding and decoding speed as well, because qoi is much simpler (simplistic even) it decodes at 3x libpng (which I’d assume is more relevant than the 20x compression for OP, though then encode might be more relevant for other applications but then IO trade offs rear their ugly heads).