If the limitation affects your usecase, you can chunk your structures.

The limitation comes with benefits.

Fair enough. Implementation details matter.

I was just responding to the “X is an absurd way to do JSON”. Which seemed to single out objects vs arrays.

Like in this case maybe, but I don’t see a reason to make that general statement.

I do not miss having to use “near” and “far” pointers in 16-bit mode C++ programming!