> what I don't understand myself is software devs that thinks it's ok to ... Most people, including software developers, think of JPEG as just a bunch of pixel

> what I don't understand myself is software devs that thinks it's ok to ... Most people, including software developers, think of JPEG as just a bunch of pixels. I think if you were to do a random survey of software developers, most wouldn't know that the rotation field exists, and an appalling percentage wouldn't even know that EXIF exists. Now that I think about it, I wonder what percentage would know that JPEG is a compressed format, let alone the fact that it's lossy...