No, you're confused and lack the ability to read between the lines. I'm talking about the ecosystem as a whole. XSL, XML Schema Definition, XPath, XQuery, and n

No, you're confused and lack the ability to read between the lines. I'm talking about the ecosystem as a whole. XSL, XML Schema Definition, XPath, XQuery, and not XML, but complementary specifications and so are EJSON, JSON Pointer, JSON Path, JMESPath, jq query language, and a growing number of other members of the JSON ecosystem. So, yeah, JSON alone is simple, because it's limited, but not orders of magnitude simpler than XML - most noobs know XHTML/HTML, and their number is orders of magnitude larger than those who know what JSON is.