It takes a while to get to the point so I’ll save others some time and tldr this very lengthy and agenda-driven blog post:

jq had a tough learning curve so you should switch to zq which is a (closed source?) wrapper around an obscure language you’ve never heard of that we promise is easier because reasons. Also coincidentally it’s the language of an ecosystem we were funded to build.

Edit: mea culpa, turns out you can download the source (revealed half way through the article).