Great! Now improve the syntax!
How, though? I agree that jq's syntax isn't exactly the most straightforward, and it gets raised as a point of criticism anytime jq is mentioned, but its scripting language seems like a pretty good compromise between compactness and rich features. Replacing that with, say, traditional command line flags would make it a lot less useful for me, I'd probably have to build much longer pipe-chains to do things that are re…
Just because jq is very well stablished doesn't mean their APIs are well designed and we shoudn't improved because will break existing scripts.
There're a lot of quirks from the usage of it and people struggling with learning such a great tool, so in the area of query-json it will try to make a better interface for users.