It also doesn't help that the Chrome team doesn't seem to apply the sam standard to other formats - webp, avif, brotli etc. were all rushed through while providing a much more questionable benefit and having only very limited support outside the web.
I don't think that is accurate. Brotli was added first to Firefox. It took 9 months longer for Chrome. Brotli has many other uses than content encoding in the web.
