Erm, a single bitflip will ruin, at maximum, a single character, which probably has enough context around it to be easily manually repaired.
Not so pretty much any compressed, encrypted or binary format... either a large chunk of it gets undecodable or the whole thing is lost.
Hence the initial post. (Are we running in circles now?)
https://plain-text.co/#the-office-model-and-the-engineering-... https://plain-text.co/#two-revolutions-in-computing
It boils down to a tradeoff of learning your tools while retaining full control vs use apps that abstract away complexity by giving up control.
If your work needs some strict technical requisite (reproducibility for example, or any other of the -ilities in software engineering), you need to have the control to tweak your tools so that you ensure it (Engineering Model, plain text files), but mostly is not needed so you can get away with working in the Office Model (binary files)