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Kind of nice, basically turns form submission into a bare-bones API call.

Which they pretty much already were. The only value I can imagine this adding is a way to encode forms with nested structure.

The changes they make solve the problem of corner cases submitting weird input to an API that expects only JSON

In 2014, I think this is a good idea.

It also solves the issues with ambiguous syntax surrounding arrays of values.