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Good lord, they managed to invent a format that is even less readable than XML.
It is not supposed to be readable by humans. You rarely have to look at it. It is designed to not get confused with the actual content, where the content can be any random text from the internet. For that, you have to use a format that is not used anywhere else.
You're right. It does seem like a suboptimal format in terms of memory usage efficiency