It may be a wire protocol, but it’s also the primary method of interaction with the computer for technical folk. Do we really have to constrain ourselves to a wire protocol here, or is there maybe room for something more user-friendly?

We, as users, do not interact with the wire protocol. We type at generally very user friendly terminals, which abstract the wire protocol.

Even TUI devs don’t usually interact with the protocol directly, they use ncurses or something from charm.sh to abstract away the protocol.

Moreover, what “constraint” does using a wire protocol like this impose?

And how would one interact with any computer without a low level layer of byte-encoded information? (You can’t. It’s how computers work)