This has just enough type information in the encoded form. You can do that in JSON too, by convention, of course. There's also an aesthetics argument. Idk, I

This has just enough type information in the encoded form. You can do that in JSON too, by convention, of course. There's also an aesthetics argument. Idk, I think this is fine, and probably desirable in some contexts, but yes, it's an Nth system syndrome.