No doubt this tool is lacking. However I will say that for me the most important quality in my `jq`-like is not conciseness. My main frustration is that I always forget the small details of how `jq`'s language works and spend 10 minutes googling. E.g doing operations within arrays of objects, using select, and so on. Maybe I'm just dumb, but I'm fond of tools that accommodate my dumbness!