This sounds like all the arguments against using JSON/YAML as well. People forget how important good UX can be, sometimes. We're using Markdown, YAML, and JSO

This sounds like all the arguments against using JSON/YAML as well. People forget how important good UX can be, sometimes. We're using Markdown, YAML, and JSON bc they're easy to use; they're "highly memetic" (easy to learn, easy to teach, easy to spread) They don't require many months to learn like XML, back in the day