It's more like, "because the industry grew up without it, other approaches gained critical mass." Path dependence is a thing. Things that experience network ef

It's more like, "because the industry grew up without it, other approaches gained critical mass." Path dependence is a thing. Things that experience network effects don't get changed unless the alternative is far superior, and ASCII Delimited Text is not that superior. Ignoring that and pushing for it anyway will at most achieve an xkcd 927.