I’m pretty much all BTRFS at this point

JPEG-XL is in no way patent encumbered. Neither is AVIF. I don’t know what you’re talking about

No, there aren’t any licensing issues with JPEG-XL.

YouTube serves VP9 video (and more recently a lot of AV1) and I think the Pis only have hardware accelerated decoding of H.264/5 as it stands today

Minecraft is arguably & measurably more performant on Linux, full stop. Anything using OpenGL performs better on Linux, check any Minecraft benchmark online.

Also, a lot of towns/cities remove those romantic locks regularly anyway.

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/image-comparison/

We need more nuclear power ASAP

One Punch Man

It is a modern successor to formats like WebP & JPEG. WebP was barely competitive with JPEG