It's a meta-commentary about the death of critical thinking and the ease with which mindless mobs can be whipped.
From the jump, the article commits a logical error, suggesting that Google killed jpegxl because it favors avif, which is "homegrown". jpegxl, of course, was also written by Google, so this sentence isn't even internally consistent.
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It's a meta-commentary about the death of critical thinking and the ease with which mindless mobs can be whipped.
From the jump, the article commits a logical error, suggesting that Google killed jpegxl because it favors avif, which is "homegrown". jpegxl, of course, was also written by Google, so this sentence isn't even internally consistent.