Might be some truth here. Although at this point automatically interpreting plain text data would fail as well. In both cases, you could add separating symbols

Might be some truth here. Although at this point automatically interpreting plain text data would fail as well. In both cases, you could add separating symbols in the raw data stream. Also, timing should help here. Sure there can be gaps, but at a given data rate the receiving end should be able to compensate for it, as long as velocity doesn't have large unexpected changes (doppler). Even then it should be decodable afterwards. There are a lot of ways you can compensate for any of these issues. That said, of course plain text is going to be the easiest option for a human to decode when everything else fails.