Exactly. By repeatedly saying "the definition is exactly what the EO said," he’s essentially deflecting responsibility and shifting the accountability upstream.
The amount of time I've spent dealing with this over the years is just incredible.. It's gotten to the point where during ingestion we auto-rotate everything just in case and strip out exif orientation metadata and never have to deal with it again.
EXIF orientation has always been a massive pain to deal with. Specially with HEIC that keeps getting updated libheifs and causing all sorts of compatibility issues.
As a lifelong Valve/CS fan, I've been so disappointed with subtick. It was pitched as generational evolution to the games netcode. Yet years later they're still playing catchup to what CS:GO provided..
Hopefully competition from Valorant and others puts more pressure to make things happen at Valve.