Many image links that work for search engines don't work for the site and I have to download and then upload to a host to get an embeddable image link.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/siat/

Especially for animated images. Comparing webp or avif sizes to gif is easily a factor of five to ten when animated.

I appreciate Google isn't a monolith, but that lack of consistency makes it really hard to shake the impression certain tribes within it are at war with each other.