You didn’t strike a nerve, but your comment is misguided. Of course people can read binary formats. It is just that they read them more slowly, and it requires

You didn’t strike a nerve, but your comment is misguided. Of course people can read binary formats. It is just that they read them more slowly, and it requires quite a bit of exposure/practice, so that people usually invest in tooling to simplify the process. I suggest that when you see a comment like this, you ask yourself “if I change ‘human readable’ to ‘easily human readable’ would I need to offer my correction?”