>The reported gains vary depending on the test conditions, but improvements around 25% compared to AV1 are commonly seen

>AV2 decoding is roughly five times more complex than AV1 decoding.

For the past 8 to 10 years VideoLan are the only guys on the AOM camp who doesn't care about optics and willing to spell out the truth.

>because we did not believe hardware decoding would become available quickly enough, or on enough devices.

The we was basically VideoLAN only. All other members ( at least on the AOM ) thought hardware decoder would be ready by 2019. And we all know how that works out.