In my experience, you’re going to pay for that complexity at some point. You either pay it at the write end or the read/query end. I don’t see a way around tha

In my experience, you’re going to pay for that complexity at some point. You either pay it at the write end or the read/query end. I don’t see a way around that, so if PG explicitly makes it so that you pay it once on the write, I’m good with that. The alternative is a more complicated data storage layout that makes queries more complicated. That’s okay too, but it just depends on your use case. I prefer the stability and “correctness” of PG, but if more flexible queries are important to you, have at it. It’s nice to have more options for JSON storage.