That's all well and good, but let me know when I can buy a used $50 NUC or pi or such that has hw decoding of the same for my TV front ends.

And maybe ten more and enough hardware will support it that it will be mainstream.

2018 AV1 demo

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16796127

If you really want to see magic, take a test sample of YUV420 video and AV1 encode it to an extremely low bitrate at like 720p, 24 fps to simulate something like the jerky handheld front-phone-cam in the example URL. Keep lowering the bitrate until the quality become unacceptable. Then compare it to the same bitrate/approx total file size in H264 and how bad it looks.

We need one final video codec.

Otherwise we will have this:

https://xkcd.com/927/

I feel as though AI is going to blow these all out of the water soon.

And then we'll get AI-designed hardware codecs for them.