[jcalvinowens]

I read your reply as mostly agreeing with me: endianness is arbitrary, using big endian for a novel protocol just because some widely used protocols decided to decades ago is silly.

> it’s easier to draw pictures as a matrix of bytes that are transmitted from left to right and top to bottom.

There are many reasons for big endian... but that is not one of them :)

> But processors are all over the map

That's not true anymore, big endian is dead. Upstream Linux is refusing to support big endian riscv at all, and is making serious noises about ripping out the existing big endian aarch64 support because the companies that ship the hardware that needs it don't work upstream.