There is a really interesting discussion underneath of this as to the limitations of JSON along with potential alternatives, but I can't help but distrust this writing due to how much it sounds like an LLM.
Seems like the author just wanted to talk about Protobuf without bothering too much about the issues with JSON (though some are mentioned).
I didn't find it confusing.
I found it unconvincing, but the argument itself was pretty clear. I just disagreed with it.
I promise you cannot tell LLM-generated content from non-LLM generated content. what you think you’re detecting is poor quality, which is orthogonal to the tooling used
I am not dismissing this as being slop and actually have no beef with using LLMs to write but yes, as you call out, I think it's just poorly written or perhaps I'm not the specific audience for this.
Sorry if this is bad energy, I appreciate the write up regardless.