The reason this doesn't work is Conda/Conda Forge uses an external libtiff build which does not have WebP support enabled. The "WEBP" GDAL driver by itself should work because that is linked different

Bitner recently added WebP to linux GDAL Conda Forge builds https://github.com/conda-forge/gdal-feedstock/pull/346 I have no idea when that will make it into Anaconda's channel though. Howard

Most folks are ambivalent about multi-dimensional support in GDAL, and they were ambivalent about subdatasets before that (which were a deficient implementation in a number of ways which precipitated