Comment by socalgal2

the short version is there's nothing wrong with it for your use case.

The author's POV is that the handbrake is a lossy conversion and often people use it in cases where they could have used a different tool that is lossless.

My uses of handbrake are that I always want a lossy conversion so no issue. A good example is anytime I make screen capture and want to post it on github. I want it to be under the 10meg limit (or whatever it is) so I want it to be re-encoded to be smaller. I don't mind the loss in quality.