I think when it comes to accessibility it's better to disable animations on the client, rather than to avoid animated images altogether.
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As a general rule, I agree.
But animation in a PFP is an incidental feature, actually a bug. Rendering a still image for gif/webp is not simple, often requires extracting the first frame or leverage some rendering exceptions to halt the animation. Better manage it at the source.