But the thing is, don't you have to worry about structure? You have to unpack the elements from the JSON, so you will need to encode its structure explicitly, w

But the thing is, don't you have to worry about structure? You have to unpack the elements from the JSON, so you will need to encode its structure explicitly, which includes type information. The only reason this would be useful is if you're just shuttling data to another API that expects a dict structure (that will then validate everything) and not JSON and you aren't really doing any real work yourself.