Previewing images in zip files

[Petie]

Having to manually cut out the images from a sheet is unnecessarily time consuming, and definitely seems like a band aid fix that aids previewing on the site but hurts actual practical usability.

I've heard this thrown around all the time and it's always because the person saying it is inexperienced or doesn't know how to work with sheets. Sheets are not a band aid that makes previewing easier and nothing else. They're used in nearly every game, from indie to AAA, that uses sprites as they're the most efficient way to store the individual sprites and access them as needed. I don't have experience creating games so I can't go into the process that's used in any depth but the reality is, sheets are the right way to do this.