It would, however, be nice if there was a tool (or, as jvns proposes, a +human option to dig) that provided output oriented to somebody who's just trying to -use- the thing rather than reading the RFC first.
(I'm very much a "read the RFC first by default" sort of person because that approach fits my brain, but I don't think everybody should have to do that for relatively simple day to day stuff)
I implemented some dynamic dns system. I still remember how to handcraft a RRUPDATE request.
After reading the RFC, every bit in dig output makes sense