Please stop spreading bs. It's not throwing away structure. Piping text doesn't even preclude sexps. It's just that they are seldom needed. Simpler encodings like space-separated are sufficient for many use cases, and better for interoperation.

It's misguided and inefficient to encode everything in the same way. Would you prefer to have your JPG or MP4 encoded in sexps?

And I say that as someone who is working on a serialization format for relational databases.