> I don't hate on any of the other formats (save for YAML, not interested), and I really appreciate JSON's brevity sometimes for simple data and small responses

> I don't hate on any of the other formats (save for YAML, not interested), and I really appreciate JSON's brevity sometimes for simple data and small responses, but that brevity quickly turns into wisps of formatting and text seemingly floating out in the middle of nowhere. Same. Every back end project I work on I recommend XML as the transport and every time I get a reflexive "ugh, XML". Then I spend an inordinate amount of time making Swagger endpoints so a consumer can figure out how the JSON output is supposed to behave.