The primary purpose of JSON is to exchange data between machines. You may have missed that part.
Sure, it's easy to read and write by humans, because it's simple, but that's not what it is for (which is what I was disagreeing with). Humans communicate better using a natural language, not JSON, as evidenced by the fact that both our comments are in English, not JSON.
And 'easy' is relative anyway. Some of my users have to write JSON (they're not developers). It would be much easier for them if the UI had built the JSON for them, while they click on buttons.
Sure, it's easy to read and write by humans, because it's simple, but that's not what it is for (which is what I was disagreeing with). Humans communicate better using a natural language, not JSON, as evidenced by the fact that both our comments are in English, not JSON.
And 'easy' is relative anyway. Some of my users have to write JSON (they're not developers). It would be much easier for them if the UI had built the JSON for them, while they click on buttons.