I also genuinely hate using jq. It is one of the only things that I rely heavily on AI.
You should try nushell or PowerShell which have built ins to convert json to objects. It makes it so easy.
At that point why don't we ask the AI directly to filter through our data? The AI query language is much more powerful.
I use the llm-jq plugin for Simon Willison's `llm` command line frontend for this: https://github.com/simonw/llm-jq