The point of the format is that you get json metadata to avoid the ambiguous issues (and it also has requirements on the csv format to use, although whether people will follow them is a different matter).

On the other hand, I used their python API a bit and for loading tables it's way too complicated, with the documentation going into great detail for faffing with metadata but not for actual loading (and nothing like a simple `read_datatable` function).

That said, because it's just a folder with CSVs you can just read them individually, although then there's nothing to take advantage of the metadata automaticall.