This reminds me of a comment someone made during the craze of XMLs in the mid 2000s. In the comment the author suspected that so many organizations chose XML to

This reminds me of a comment someone made during the craze of XMLs in the mid 2000s. In the comment the author suspected that so many organizations chose XML to implement their domain-specific languages, configuration languages included, only because XML offers a parser, while most organizations didn't want to bother with writing their own parser. It beats me why people didn't want to write parsers, though. Writing parsers is not that hard, and is quite fun.