In databases images are pretty much always stored as some variant of a binary data type. That is they are simply a complete image of the original file. That keeps things simple for everyone involved. Other programs know how to consume the file without any special processing and the DB itself doesn't need to do anything special to the field either on input or output.
Switching it around so that images are stored in one central spot and other topics simply link to that repository would require a reworking internally of how RW handles images but if they wanted to do it, it could be done.
I still question how much gain would be had from the effort it would take. I doubt many people actually reuse images ever in a realm.
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