[ashwinsundar]

A standard for what? It just makes JSON look nicer and more query-able. You don't have to use it.

[xmonkee]

A standard as in there is a cottage industry of tools and websites built around it now, like this one.

[lxgr]

Given the choice between a hypothetical standard that nobody wrote (or implemented) and a tool that organically grew complex enough to benefit from a standard, I'd rather have the latter.

Users (i.e. not implementors) usually also don't read the standard – they read the docs (ideally containing lots of examples on top of a dry enumeration of options), or today indeed ask an LLM.