Well, the issue still exists if we used regular sentences ending with a newline, allowing nice stuff for translators like printf positional arguments. The probl

Well, the issue still exists if we used regular sentences ending with a newline, allowing nice stuff for translators like printf positional arguments. The problem is that you have implicit state - the layout of the console or the columns of a json/xml - and no decent way to maintain it in a format string (because C tooling is poor, because this interface isn't entirely typesafe, etc.).