I got the anon's point. The OP's complaint has nothing to do with the file being a mini, so the anon at 18:22 was way off topic.

Yes.
Criticism is fine, shitting on people is not.

"Why wouldn't anyone want to release as fast as possible?"

Well, that says a lot about the kind of uploader that you seem to be..

If you love something, like anime, you "pick" the ones you want to work on because you enjoy the anime (not because it's popular), and you spend AS MUCH TIME AS NEEDED into releasing something that adds value to the original. You don't release something half-baked because you have a life and you want to move on to something else.

So yes, most mini-groups out there are releasing HEVC encodes of every anime that gets in their RSS feed, and release them as fast as possible for downloads and popularity, not for the love of a show (or else they wouldn't make minis, or at least they'd be more selective and put more work into it). They'd even stop releasing a show if it doesn't get enough downloads.

That being said, I'll agree that most AV1 encodes would look better than HEVC at similar low bitrates, but again, if you enjoy a show you go for the best quality out there and (sorry to say) but compression doesn't make quality. It's good enough for specific rewatchs and/or for storage (on a hard drive) once you've completed a series though so batch AV1 encodes would make sense.. weeklies, not much.