It’s really only annoying because it has exceedingly fussy semantics. And even then, it usually fades into background noise unless you’re using the exceedingly

It’s really only annoying because it has exceedingly fussy semantics. And even then, it usually fades into background noise unless you’re using the exceedingly fussy semantics with minimal constraints. If you generally tend to use the same N set of namespaces and always use the same prefixes with them, it’s mostly just fine after you copypasta some boilerplate (or have tools do the boilerplate for you). (Yeah I work with XML day to day, yeah I might have some amount of Stockholm Syndrome associated with that.)