It was that great. It got us away from the era when everybody would make up binary formats to store data, into the era where you can debug by eyeball instead of

It was that great. It got us away from the era when everybody would make up binary formats to store data, into the era where you can debug by eyeball instead of with a hex dump utility, and use off-the-shelf parsers as a bonus. That's plenty enough revolution for one generation of technology. Everything after that is gravy.