As said before, the commiter of the JXL removal is an AOM contributor, and the manager who approved it has given presentations on AV1.
This is politics, not a technical discussion.
This is politics, not a technical discussion.
One of the main JPEG XL contributors is a WebP contributor and a Google employee. If JPEG XL got shipped first you could make the opposite conspiracy from that!
The Web is not supposed to be a Katamari Damacy of codecs. It doesn't need multiple redundant or worse ways to do the same thing. There's a high cost of adopting a new format Web-wide, so it's rational to do it rarely and only when benefits outweigh the costs.
YC is an US company, and its network is US-based.