How would this be "favoring Beamr"? I'd see it as piggybacking on a potentially useful Beamr innovation. Someone slightly more fanatic about IPR might even call it "theft".
As I understand it, the whole point of Beamr is that you don't have to manually tune the parameters for each video file.
It took me a few reads to see what you meant. I had taken Beamr to be about optimizing things like which what size blocks to use, how often to put i frames, and so on, which means better perceived quality at some bitrate. If it's always using the same settings and the only smartness is about what framerate to pick, then you would be correct.
As I understand it, the whole point of Beamr is that you don't have to manually tune the parameters for each video file.