[digitallogic]

> Maybe this could be fixed in a json extension which allows words to be read as strings of themselves but if you extend json you lose any interoperability.

I worked on a product that did this for its storage file syntax, and the issue around interoperability was a huge drag. Both on us, and also on our customers. By nature of the product the customers often wanted to generate the files themselves, but generally didn't because they lacked tools to do so.