Please tell that to the entire world, where the only other “standard” document format is Office '97 or OOXML. Given that PDFs support fillable forms, scripts,

Please tell that to the entire world, where the only other “standard” document format is Office '97 or OOXML. Given that PDFs support fillable forms, scripts, video, 3D objects; it is a massive error that at no point did anyone think to have some plain text equivalent field or something like that. It would be pretty darn simple for most generating applications to produce one of those. Yes, I know it was largely meant as a preprint/graphics format, but clearly it hasn't been just that for a long time.