I am hoping we could break those H.264 limits ( such as block size ) and brute force push compression higher with much higher computational requirement while st

I am hoping we could break those H.264 limits ( such as block size ) and brute force push compression higher with much higher computational requirement while still being patent free. I think with MPEG-5 EVC baseline which uses mostly expired patents shows that it is possible to reach HEVC level compression.