Using text because it's better than binary format?

human readable doesnt not mean the text format is unambiguous. aka don't preform checks/validations because not specification of what to check/validate

see https://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html && https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826600

just as messy as ambiguously specified ASN.1 binary formats.

Very important to know the requirments/specs for what's being implimented!