They did not communicate if they were emotionally in favor or against. They did not conduct comparisons. None of their image experts participated in the discussion. Previously, when WebP was introduced, they had lively, well-justified and in general a professional approach to declining it. This time, the bugs were closed for discussion even when the community had huge interest to discuss these features and the implementation was in rapid development. Result: we don't know what they think deep inside and how/why the decision was made.