[phn]

Yeah,in the presence of adequate tooling you don't need to grep logs. But how much more effort is required to use those tool-friendly loggings? Where is your god when the tool fails?

For me the main reason to access plaintext logs is they seldom fail, and they are simple. They are a bore to analyse, they CAN be analysed.

Anyway, this discussion only makes sense if the task at hand involves heavy log analysis, don't complicate what is simple when it isn't needed.

As for the razor analogy, you're right, however I wouldn't change my beard to be "razor compatible only". In the software world I'd say it is still not uncommon to find yourself "stranded in a desert island".