Can you provide a source on how Google is working hard on JPEG-XL missing features?

Name one program that doesn't support WebP.

It's Fantasy, not Sci-Fi.

Is there a real need to bring your American party-politics in this thread?

What is it?

Some people care about privacy.

Blind people shouldn't need to give up their privacy to Microsoft and Google to have a web page read to them.

Why would you pay a tip to the taxi driver? They are usually self-employed.

Why are we not using them in end-user devices

Yes, it's disbelief based on lack of sources, more than anything.

Bad photographers complaining to be called out as bad photographers.

World of Goo!

Their distribution of books is completely legal.

Corporations just have more money to warp the laws in their favour.

That's why the Archive is appealing: they still believe they are right.

Wikipedia requires attribution, which AI scrapers never give.

It is "public" work, but under a license.

Then maybe it shouldn't grow.

It seems a very valid reason to give up your privacy.

You could present your valid argument without calling in homophobia.

Until the soon presidency of Hungary.

Hungary will have the presidency, not the total control. They propose discussions but the vote in the Council is still majority based.

The second sentence of OP should have started with "Scientific research"