[leni536]

It's not like text formats are universal. Thankfully we have settled on utf-8. The same could happen to a slightly more structured universal binary format that would be more suitable for many applications (like logging) and would have an established toolset just like 'text' now.

[bad_user]

That doesn't make sense. There can be no such thing as a universal binary format, unless you reinvent text/plain. Analyze a little on why we refer to some formats as being text-based and you'll see it.