>The subset of AV1 supported by hardware is much narrower than what is in practice used in AVIF images
The majority of AVIF images are hardware decodeable, even if most viewers don't bother with it. The biggest limitation is that profile 0 decoders are 4:2:0 only, but that describes the majority of Web images.
The majority of AVIF images are hardware decodeable, even if most viewers don't bother with it. The biggest limitation is that profile 0 decoders are 4:2:0 only, but that describes the majority of Web images.