On: I prefer human-readable file formats

[fireflash38]

If you're reading in data, you need to parse and verify it anyway.

[IanCal → fireflash38]

Which you might not be able to do after it’s been broken silently.

[fireflash38 → IanCal]

That's still an issue with binary files too, and you can't even look at them to fix.

[IanCal → fireflash38]

Binary files are not usually edited by hand, and should not get broken without a broken parser or writer. There can be many more ways of fixing them too because it may not be as ambiguous as broken sv files.