I don't see it as particularly convenient if I want to stream a large array of small independent objects and read each one of them once, then discard it. The incremental parsed array would get bigger and bigger, eventually containing all the objects I wanted to discard. I would also need to move my array pointer to the last element at each increment.

jq and JSON.sh have similar incremental "mini-object-before-complete" approaches to parsing JSON. However, they do include some tools to shape those mini-objects (pruning, selecting, and so on). Also, they're tuned for pipes (new line is the event), which caters to shell and text-processing tools. I wonder what would be the analogue for that in a higher language.