When I want something more readable than json I usually use nushell. The syntax is almost the same and you can just pipe through "from json" and "to json" to convert: https://gist.github.com/MatrixManAtYrService/9d25fddc15b2494...

What I like about fractured json is the middle ground between too-sparse pretty printing, and too-compact non-pretty printing, nu doesn't give me that by default.

One thing that neither fractured json nor nushell gives me, which I'd like, is the ability to associate an annotation with a particular datum, convert to json, convert back to the first language, and have that comment still be attached to that datum. Of course the intermediate json would need to have some extra fields to carry the annotations, which would be fine.