- this encodes to ASCII text (unless your strings contain unicode themselves) - that means you can copy-paste it (good luck doing that with compressed JSON or CBOR or SQLite - there is a scale where JSON isn't human readable anymore. I've seen files that are 100+MB of minified JSON all on a single very long line. No human is reading that without using some tooling.

That kind of feels a bit worst of both worlds. None of the space savings/efficiency of binary but also no human readability.

Being able to copy/paste a serialization format is not really a feature i think i would care about.