It's only "specialized" because we haven't been doing it so it's considered special. At some point you have to admit that what's meant for the computer is not

It's only "specialized" because we haven't been doing it so it's considered special. At some point you have to admit that what's meant for the computer is not always byte by byte the same as what's meant for the human. We try to shove these two together and we screw up both of them. Empower the computer to be the best that it can be by taking the human out. Empower and respect the human by giving him/her their own representation. The "I just want to read the bytes that are on disk" philosophy is inherently limiting and broken when the audience are two very different things (humans vs computers). My argument is that instead of fighting that we must embrace it.