There's a particularly complicated system I built a few years ago that heavily leaned on jq for configuring some backend systems. It had lots of variables piped in and so that particular error was common. From your snippet, I'm pretty sure gojq would have saved me many hours of debugging.
This article makes me genuinely concerned for my own health and future. I was originally placed on clonazepam at 0.5mg/day back when I was a Freshman in High School and have definitely felt reduced levels of cognition whilst on it. I’ve only recently stopped taking it, around 10 years later.