That's like saying you don't believe in memory allocation and pointers because they're "untamed" and "mischievous". Sure, low-level APIs/formats are a pain to w

That's like saying you don't believe in memory allocation and pointers because they're "untamed" and "mischievous". Sure, low-level APIs/formats are a pain to work with, but that's the whole point of abstractions like this. If you hate yourself for learning how something low-level works, that sounds like a personal problem. :)