To be fair we're fine with jpg and png, storage and traffic is cheap, compute is much less cheap. Only gif is a problem but most just use h264 and pretend it's a gif.
>>105658491Doesn't really matter, it's a picture, not a video. Any client can cpu decode no problem.
What does matter though is if it's so SLOW to encode that you need a dedicated server to encode (accelerated or not)