I don't. I just remember watching a presentation on it and it always struck me that wavelets are an incredibly powerful and underutilized technique for data reduction while preserving quality in a quantifiable and mathematically justifiable way.

I don't have any papers in mind, but I do think that the critique around visual shape vs signal reconstruction may not be accurate given that wavelets are starting to see a lot of adoption in the visual space (at least JPEG2000 is the leading edge in that field). Might also be interesting to use DCT as well. I think these will perform better than LTTB (of course the compute cost is higher but there's also HW acceleration for some of these or will be over time).