Comment by ezst

you and me are enthusiasts, we love to know about codecs, formats, and we spontaneously seek novelty in this field and engage with it (I have similar stories of amazement about opus, I even went quite deep the rabbit hole of writing a java decoder implementation for it just to study it). But most people won't get nearly that excited, unless a new format magically enables something like twice the compression performance (so people start spreading the word that they can e.g. buy their next smartphone with 128GB storage and not the 256GB version and enjoy the same capabilities). Anything less than that will be a rounding error and barely perceptible, not worthy of the attention, and definitely not of the time to re-process and massively convert prior content.