Already compressed files like video don’t meaningfully compress more. Compression isn’t magic.

On most phones the end result will look fairly poor AND it will be a pain in the ass.

The article is 3 years old and some things are only presently being fixed NOW and due to filter down to stable distros in 2024. Furthermore wayland proponents have been claiming its totally ready for prime time and not broken at all since 2015 while promoting AMD GPUs that at that point in time still sucked hairy balls.