How is systemd a binary format for configuration? I get the silliness of journald not being clear text, you can configure it to be, but it's not the default, w

How is systemd a binary format for configuration? I get the silliness of journald not being clear text, you can configure it to be, but it's not the default, which is really weird. If you have the scale where you need binary logs for performance, then you also have remote log hosts. The remote log hosts will frequently also store logs in a binary format, like logstash, Humio, Splunk and what have you, but they are shipped a text, so the binary is just an unnecessary extra step. Sure you can use journald as a log collector, but I've never seen anyone do that... Kinda cool, but not frequently used. Systemd unit files though, those are much much better than any other init system I've ever used. They are easy to write, easy to understand and just overall nice to work with. Timers are awesome as well, same easy syntax as startup scripts, easy to test, easy to debug.