Well, "easier" may well be "one less dimension to encode data" in this case. Sure, this gives quite a few variations on how to serialize some data. But it's no

Well, "easier" may well be "one less dimension to encode data" in this case. Sure, this gives quite a few variations on how to serialize some data. But it's not like json's simpler approach would make data serialization universal, there are many different ways to encode the same thing.