[swiftcoder]

> It’s certainly no worse than looking up the dotfile format and firing up vi

It's a lot worse, IMO. We're all fluent in our text editor of choice, we all know the rough format conventions of dot files.

Whereas I'd certainly have to lookup man page of the defaults tool, and IIRC it only supports editing one-key-at-a-time, which sucks for a dense config file.

If your tool provides a TUI/GUI for editing preferences, that'd be a different story.