“I personally am not sending JSON too often myself so I’m pretty sure I’m not suitable to design this feature entirely on my own.”
Shell quoting and JSON double quotes have broken more curl commands than any server ever did. Stenberg is finally floating native JSON options after years of “don’t do it” replies on the list. Admitting he doesn’t use the feature and asking for help is how a maintainer avoids building the wrong thing. Most projects skip that step.