Exactly. The author even opens the article with the nice trivia that CSV has been in use since the 1970s. I don't think anyone disputes that CSV is a very primi

Exactly. The author even opens the article with the nice trivia that CSV has been in use since the 1970s. I don't think anyone disputes that CSV is a very primitive format. But I hope no one uses CSV because it is so performant or well-designed. It is used exactly because it is so universal, which makes the point of comparing against almost any other format moot unless they were around in the 1970s, too.