Yeah, no question; H264 had a 10+ year head start and entrenched itself as part of the Blu-ray and online video sharing space. Once AV1 has similarly-largely-scoped things then it'll probably take a lot of h264's market, and it'll be royalty-free from the get-go.
I definitely want AV1 to become the "video standard to rule them all", but once H264's patents expire I think I'm also ok with it being the standard as well.
Lit was originally written by a group of engineers at Google, and most of the main team is still at Google working on Lit either full time or part time, though there's increasing contributions and governance from outside Google.
I am biased, as I've had every pro/xl but the Pixel6 and the google nexus phone's prior to that.
With that being said i've only had questionable build quality on 2 occasions. The Huawei 6p which was covered under a recall, and the Panda Pixel 2XL where there was some lamination issues.
That being said, the build quality and materials (mostly) really stepped up initially in the Pixel 4, and then noticeably again in the P7. They are quite nice. I don't really find them lacking in quality, fit, or finish these days.
It is especially nice combined with mkdocs and the mermaid plugin when doing documentation.