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"Better" doesn't always mean "smaller", especially in this example. LZMA's strength is that it compresses very small but its weakness is that it's extremely CPU-intensive to decompress. Switching to ZSTD will actually result in larger downloads, but the massively reduced CPU load of decompressing ZSTD will mean it's faster for most users. Instead of just counting the time it takes for the data to transfer, this is factoring in download time + decompression time. Even though ZSTD is somewhat less efficient in terms of compression ratio, it's far more efficient computationally.
"most users" have gigabit pipes to the internet?