Oracle owns the JavaScript trademark and has started enforcing it. Kinda wise in hindsight that Mariadb didn't call it json?

I think Mariadb was there first. I think the format is very similar at the bit level, but the MySQL has nicer API with automatic returning it as text to apps rather than exposing the bits. I dislike json_extract and wish >> worked but it doesn't seem to on my percona server :(

Anyhow, you'll look back when you've got more distance from Oracle and realize that you don't need to try and convince yourself that MySQL was better quite so hard ;)