Literally half the OP article along with half the comments here explain how XML is a problem, how it is not equivalent to any other serialization format, etc. I

Literally half the OP article along with half the comments here explain how XML is a problem, how it is not equivalent to any other serialization format, etc. IMO the funniest example is stanza ids. That problem wouldn't exist even if they just used said XML in a remotely sane manner. But they really wanted to go all in on it. It's the XML mindset, the need to complicate things.