I think integration into jq would be both powerful and sufficient.

Powerful but not sufficient. There’s plenty of us who don’t use jq for various reasons.

LLMs have allowed me to start using jq for more than pretty printing JSON.

Give https://rcl-lang.org/#intuitive-json-queries a try! It can fill a similar role, but the syntax is very similar to Python/TypeScript/Rust, so you don’t need an LLM to write the query for you.

Nice! Thanks!

The issue isn’t jq’s syntax. It’s that I already use other tools that fill that niche and have done since as long as jq has been a thing. And frankly, I personally believe the other tools are superior so I don’t want to fallback to jq just because someone on HN tells me to.