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by groby_b 5236 days ago
Not as absurd as you'd think. You don't want to debug the protocol itself, but you want to be able to easily read what messages were exchanged.

I get the rationale. But I think it's weak, and this entire post is lots of fluff around that core rationale. (I've been writing extensible binary protocols back in 1988 - and it never struck me as particularly difficult even back then.)