> clearly refers to one thing

Great, this looks like JSON. Is it JSON5? Does it expect bigint support? Can I use escape chars?

You're providing an example of my point. People don't, in general, care about any of that, so "solving" those "problems" isn't likely to help adoption.

To your specific points:

1. JSON5 didn't exist when JSON adoption occurred, and in any case they're pretty easy to tell apart, because JSON requires keys to be quoted. This is a non-problem. Why do you think it might matter? Not to mention that the existence of some other format that resembles JSON is hardly a reflection on JSON itself, except perhaps as a compliment to its perceived usefulness.

2. Bigint support is not a requirement that most people have. It makes no difference to adoption.

3. Escape character handling is pretty well defined in ECMA 404. Your point is so obscure I don't even know specifically what you might be referring to.

	▲	thayne a day ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with most of what you said, but json's numbers are problematic. For one thing, many languages have 64-bit integers, which can't be precisely represented as a double, so serializing such a value can lead to subtle bug if it is deserialized by a parser that only supports doubles. And deserializing in languages that have multiple numeric types is complicated, since the parser often doesn't have enough context to know what the best numeric type to use is.