TBH, I think you are reading too much into it. For me, json files are also just text files. Or ini files. Or md files. They do, however, prescribe some struct

TBH, I think you are reading too much into it. For me, json files are also just text files. Or ini files. Or md files. They do, however, prescribe some structure, or syntax, in them, to be parseable by the interpreter/compiler/whatever. I think this has always been the case.