Transit is unreadable exactly because it has to work around the limitations of JSON (like string-only keys) to deliver its primary features: true maps, tagged c

Transit is unreadable exactly because it has to work around the limitations of JSON (like string-only keys) to deliver its primary features: true maps, tagged collections etc. TJSON only has tags for primitives, so yeah, it's not much different from JSON this way, the tooling is happy.