> In general it's kind of a moot point by now, just go with AV1.

You don't always get to decide. E.g. IP cameras will generally support both h.264 and h.265 these days, with HEVC doing vastly better than AVC, yet if that output has to go near a browser, instead of through dedicated software... SOL. Can't do anything with it. The hardware can, the software can't.

And AV1 is decode-only anyway, and only supported in the newest platforms. CPU decoding is just not a reasonable solution.