I just have to re-affirm I do appreciate the lower quality render path of hevc (blurry) more than the default for jpeg and others (blocky mess). I really don't visually notice the lower quality reductions at much lower quality levels/file sizes than comparable blocky formats.

That's not to say it isn't lower quality, when looking in detail you see it... but for a lot of use cases (and in video) much better experience in general.