I wonder what the video editing story is like.

It would be cool if one day (if not already today?) you could use AV1 as a drop-in replacement for h264 for recording with OBS, smoothly editing without proxy clips and rendering out highly disk size efficient videos that look good.

DaVinci Resolve's free version on Linux does not support h264 but apparently does support AV1. Kdenlive supports both. AV1 sounds like it would be a great solution for Linux if the above is possible.