I do not like EXIF being stripped - this must be overcome by Xara (please..)
Sort of OT, but...the JPEG we export is not the JPEG you embed - it's resized / resampled to the required resolution / angle etc. So some fields in the EXIF would have to be changed for sure as they'd be completely wrong. If you adjust a photo enhance values, then all the exposure values would also be meaningless / misleading also.

So what value is it to have EXIF in published JPEGs? Or what EXIF fields do you think should be preserved, and why?

Using placeholders for JPEGs is one way to preserve the EXIF if you really want this.

So right now I'm not convinced this is a valuable feature. I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise though.