[megous]

Corruption not in a sense of storage issues, but in a sense of a fragile text format made for human editing, but not entire pleasant for that.

I wanted more pleasant entry. It became tedious/error prone to search for similar entries with vim and copy pasting. I could have made a specialized tool with nice autocomplete on top of ledger, but then why not drop the entire thing and use a database, where you don't need to re-invent groupping, sorting, filtering, summing, date interval operations and all the mundane stuff.

I also wanted to import data from a bank, and keep all the info associated with the entries. Easy to do in a database, not so in ledger text format.