I didn't say fans, I said fans. Fans are people that make baseless claims online thinking they are smarter than everyone else while accomplishing nothing worthwhile. Fans have brought us things like AVISynth and the plugins available for it. Only a fanatic would suffer with VfW like that. There's also aegisub, ASS files, and many other tools. We'll just ignore the prolific pirating and a now major anime streaming platform that started off of using fan subs.