Animate HTML5 Publish - undesired image assets export behavior

Hi there,

I am used to designing HTML5 Ads in Photoshop, testing the animation with client by Importing PSD to AfterFX (proven workflow, AE is a lot faster for this task in my hands and every client is able to preview mp4 - which cannot be said about usual html+images package) and finishing the work in Animate.

Before the finish I prepare optimized mix of tinified JPG/PNG to fit the ususal 95 kB image limit (150 - html-js) and to have exact control of transparency, smoothing etc. before importing them to Animate.

Since update to 2022, Animate does not care about my optimized set of images and recalculates them to bigger size and renames them. Anybody eslse noticed this behavior? Is this a bug or feature?