It's not about people not being able to load their data, but about accelerating the loading with serialization and about whether or not people want to focus on

It's not about people not being able to load their data, but about accelerating the loading with serialization and about whether or not people want to focus on data cleaning, or have the cleaning done once and then available for posterity. Quilt is, in my view, as open as git or GitHub. The de/serialization code is all open source, and uses an open format (Parquet). Parquet is accessible (and more optimal than text files) for things like Presto DB, Hive, etc.