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> What’s great about HTTP 1.1 is it’s simplicity.

This is an underappreciated feature of the old protocols. You can telnet into an HTTP, SMTP, POP, or even IMAP server and talk to it with your keyboard (using stunnel for the encrypted versions), or dump the traffic to learn the protocol or debug a problem. Good luck doing that with QUIC.

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Might want to try using tools from this century. We live in a post-curl, post-Wireshark world. There's no need to create excess waste heat parsing and unparsing "plain text" (lol, there is no such thing) protocols anymore; and anyways with SSL virtually mandatory it's not like it stays human readable over the wire. Fast, efficient, open binary protocols ftw!

For the second part, using wireshark is really not that big a jump in skill level and an easy way to debug the protocol (provided you get past the encryption)

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