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webp, webp2, and avif are absolutely worth using in modern web scenarios. It's even considered "poor practice" to serve legacy formats now.

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I wouldn't say it's "poor practice" to serve legacy formats. If you're using a setup to allow for fallbacks, that's the best practice. There are more device types some developers need to consider than the latest version of Chrome.

That's why I put it in the quotes. Google will flag you for core web vitals issues if you're serving jpegs and pngs all over the place.

Many CDNs automatically serve the best format compatible with the useragent these days!

Also... the bit about the latest version of Chrome is pretty far off. WebP has been usable for 90+% (for my use cases, 99%) of the web for a LONG time. The only thing holding us back was safari 14.0 which is now not on my list of targets!

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