What we tend to forget in this debate is, human readability doesn't only mean "read and understand", but "read, understand and mentally validate". Now I'm not s

What we tend to forget in this debate is, human readability doesn't only mean "read and understand", but "read, understand and mentally validate". Now I'm not so sure that for example YAML is as easily validatable as JSON. To me the simplest and the easiest to validate used to be the old good INI but unfortunately it never got its chance to be strictly standardized to support nested structures. JSON is the next readable/validatable but it is slightly worse in all respects.