Likewise, your text objects aren't my text objects. For a fair comparison I think we should first assume compatibility for both unstructured, and structural data. Otherwise I would challenge that your bash script is not my bash script.

The sole point of structural data is to turn the storage into a formal system, and enable more math operations on the entries, which align to the desired semantics. Python/js/clojure scripts extract some structural aspects from text, and then the story becomes the same as structural data processing.