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I had the luxury of seeing incredibly smart engineers speak about their new innovations for web development.
I then got to watch them get hired by Google and paid extremely well to release those innovations, with the support of a bunch of other brilliant people, often under a open-source label.
I then get to see people go, "Google Bad!" About those features, and because it was paid for by Google, they don't even want to touch it.
WebP and AVIF are good at what they do, it's just that Google insists on them being the only modern formats people should ever use, despite different formats being better in specific contexts.
I don't think people would be as upset if Google gave people the choice to use other formats. The standards aren't the problem, the monopoly is.
Google is an enormous beast. It doesn't care about you, or me, or the good of anyone. Sometimes its goals happen to align with a common good for awhile - and so good stuff can come from that. But often their goal do not, and they cause harm while crushing any possible alternative path. And as time goes on, less and less of what google does is for the common good.
For that reason, I think it is unwise to support google. Supporting them further entrenches their power, preventing others from contributing.
The smart engineers you spoke of would still be smart engineers with or without google. Google didn't create them. They can still contribute with or without Google. But Google did direct their efforts to suit Google's own needs. - Sometimes that's also good for other people, but often it is not.