Because HEVC is an awesome encoding software, that many "releasers" don't bother to use properly. People usually find encode-settings their PC and their eyes can tolerate and go with that literally for everything, which is dumb. And it's not only about "over 1Gb per episode" people. There are some "cool" guys from this same group releasing 1080p episodes under 150Mb, which could be OK for static anime (minimum on-screen movement) or if you have a tiny screen, or your TV can blur JPEG artifacts. But damn those are awful. Just as awfull as 1.4Gb dirty/blurry 8bit episodes from crunchyroll. Whoever there made it a norm, should put something hard, cold and long up his ass. But there isn't much to choose from, so we all go with what we can get.
tl;dr crunchyroll releases are excessively large, with proper settings HEVC can fix that without any quality loss.
> without any quality loss.
Nice joke. But you can't observe it unless you play source and encode beside each other. But as you said CR is pointless bloat, and anime has non movement frames, HEVC is the best option, if you are on size cap but with that being said, I don't think much observable difference will be there if you watch it on 15.6 inch lappy.
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