> I can see why they want to give users the option

I completely dislike the practice of giving options for no reason other than to give options. Don't make me learn different ways of doing the same thing to succeed in an ecosystem. Don't make me learn differences and similarities. If one way works properly and doesn't have obvious downsides, stick with having one way. If it has obvious downsides, stick with having a different one way. Subjective format taste isn't a real downside. Pick one format and stick with it.

The line from the zen of Python about how "there should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it" is something that people all too often forget the value of.