Because you work at or for some bureaucratic MegaCorp, that does weird things with no real logic behind it other than clueless Dilbert managers making decisions based on LinkedIn blogs. Alternatively desperate IT consultants trying to get something to work with too low of a budget and/or no access to do things the right way.
Be glad you have JSON to parse, and not EDI, some custom deliminated data format (with no or old documentation) - or shudders you work in the airline industry with SABRE.
Be glad you have JSON to parse, and not EDI, some custom deliminated data format (with no or old documentation) - or shudders you work in the airline industry with SABRE.