That's definitely the pragmatic choice when working with shell and what roughly everyone does. But it's is also a UX compromise that, if needed anywhere other than the Stockholm Syndrome-ridden world of unix, would be routinely derided.

Shell and plain text are too embedded in the unix-descendant world to get rid of, and I'm not advocating for anything like that. Just trying to push back against oft-repeated maxims about the power of plain text. Structured data has lots to offer for composability, power, and UX.