My POV: Until 2020 I worked in data exchange between an online retail company (think Amazon in the good old days) and its suppliers. I wish people used XML mo

My POV: Until 2020 I worked in data exchange between an online retail company (think Amazon in the good old days) and its suppliers. I wish people used XML more. Not because it's cool or practical or any of those reasons. It's because 90% of non-tech-savvy people still do their IT work by someone manually filling in cells in an Excel worksheet. I do understand your attitude - but I think the world would be served a lot better if we accepted formats that were viable, just not en vogue, if it at least got rid of all the crap we are using instead.