No. You're not being sarcastic here. PFs config files can't really be any more complicated or easier in json than in its native form. So, other than validation

No. You're not being sarcastic here. PFs config files can't really be any more complicated or easier in json than in its native form. So, other than validation or something... Which, if you are already parsing the file into json and back again... Means you already can parse pf.conf files, and just do validation directly there. So if it's just backing up, then yeah why add the extra step of converting the file before backing it up