[pjmlp]

Plenty of folks that criticise XML, have no issues dealing with JSON and YAML spaghetti, ironically.

[mpartel]

I agree. It's just quite a lot of verbose-looking XML. "I have to write that much XML" is probably not the first impression you want to give. I did scroll down and see that you don't actually have to write such XML by hand, but many will not.