> Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I'm curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video.

Waiting for a degradation tolerant codec.

Old MPEGs were, as they had broadcast use in mind, but even 264 blow them out of the water on compression nowadays.

Loss tolerant codec + modern channel coding will likelly outrange analog for quality picture