Right, due to slim support outside of browsers, webp files kinda turned into lumps of coal when downloaded, going from the image you wanted to a chunk of data that nothing but the browser knew what to do with. It was like the file format version of those fake-transparent PNGs with checkerboard background.

> even at the time of writing, inserting a WebP in a Google Docs results in “unsupported image type.”

This is pretty wild. Google can't align their own tools for it?