It's not as much "can't view a pdf" as it is "not willing to pull in 20 packages and dependencies to view a pdf." You might as well send it around as a spreadsheet: who doesn't have Excel installed???
I appreciate the text-based version that was posted in this thread, thank you!
I don't have Excel installed, but can PDFs just fine, thank you.
If you're working solely in an environment so minimal and obscure that it can't view a PDF, I think you've lost the right to be catered to (and complain) when it comes to document format decisions.
The comparison to Excel is absurd; PDF is an open format and has been for more than five years.
what system are you running such that viewing a pdf takes 20 packages and dependencies? How are you on hacker news if you can't get your system to view pdfs?