How does it compare with zstandard these days?
Cbloom has a bunch of blog posts with charts purporting to show it doing significantly faster decoding than zstd at every choice of compression ratio.
I would trust him to run his own benchmarks fairly and properly, but I am not sure if there have been good independent benchmarks done.
I hope that Epic does something interesting with what RAD has built here. Taking it more proprietary (e.g, halting new licensing) would be a huge blow for the industry.