>>10807243It's not, it's just most anime watchers have shitty computers and rely on a 20 year old encoding standard that can run on a toaster.
I'm not saying AVC can't provide high quality visuals but the amount of space it takes up for someone who isn't a data hoarder is straight up unreasonable. HEVC lets your hardware do the heavy lifting while providing more encoding options.
Don't fall for anime cartel autism.
VVC is a meme though I won't argue about that.