Which I recall being touted as one of the major advantages of systemd - specifically that binary log files would make for much easier log aggregation as it would be more efficient to send over the wire. Fast forward to today and the best way of shipping logs is to force journald to output to, uh, text, then wring it through, yes thats right, syslog, to then be sent to a central server...
At the risk of uttering a "you're holding it wrong" defense, it feels to me the issue isn't with logging format, but the stubbornness of *nix admins used to working with text. For better or worse, software moves in the direction of things large amounts of developers like the most, whether it makes sense or not.
