That's really not an improvement. This complex enough that you're going to run into problems when multiple systems use the same database. I can imagine the fun

That's really not an improvement. This complex enough that you're going to run into problems when multiple systems use the same database. I can imagine the fun that comes when another system wedges a field because it used the wrong type. That's the same problem we already have with a single text column. This is way more complex and still has the same problems.