Sure, they’re playing favorites with the tech they’ve invested in and backed. The point is that the JPEG-XL situation is the normal case.

If the principal leans on a teacher and they give a passing grade to the star football player so he remains in good academic standing, but then the teacher fails another student who has a similar performance, there’s nothing baffling about either case, and certainly not about the student the teacher failed. The favoritism is bad, but the fact that they failed the one student is the normal situation.