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It's being pushed by Google as a format exclusively designed for the web. It's annoying as fuck because it just started showing up randomly and it's annoying to use for the reasons you mentioned.
Interestingly enough, the first thing it did was put a speedbump in front of is downloading an image from a Google images search. Imagine that.
I think browsers are starting to convert it locally as saving images seems to be slowly returning to some kind of normal. Maybe.
I've seen file browsers that do implicit conversions which is really helpful. So if you rename a file from
pic.webpit automatically gets convertedpic.jpg. That's quite useful if you don't care about specific quality parameters. Maybe browsers should just let you save a picture in any major image format.There is probably no conversion. A proper implementation of webp images in a html is to also include an the link for the jpg or png. So when a browser that doesn’t support webp renders the page it can just load the jpg or png.