[pron]

> there's really not that much scope to creep into

First, we've been in this game far too long to know that this isn't the case. Second, this is only incubation. It may well be that the team behind this feature intend to add more convenience methods but wish to do it later once the core is more battle-tested. It's always best to focus on the core first and add ornamentation once you know the core is right.

[ptx]

Shouldn't the core provided by this JEP be a streaming API then, so that you can build whatever you need on top of it? But they specifically exclude that from the goals.

[pron]

No, because the functionality this is the core of is explicitly for small, simple JSON tasks. If the core were streaming, you would need to always write quite a bit of non-trivial code for small, simple JSON tasks. Note that the lack of some convenience methods here doesn't even increase the number of lines of code needed. It just makes the lines more noisy.