Most websites people care about use open codecs these days (Google and Netflix use VP9 and AV1, both are open and royalty-free).
Never had an issue with font rendering. And cutting edge being too cutting edge might be an issue with some dev things but having up to date Gnome and apps is fine.
People care about fans spinning up and batteries draining. Video not being hardware accelerated is a bad ootb experience and the type of reason Ubuntu became so big.
Most websites people care about use open codecs these days (Google and Netflix use VP9 and AV1, both are open and royalty-free).
Never had an issue with font rendering. And cutting edge being too cutting edge might be an issue with some dev things but having up to date Gnome and apps is fine.