I see a lot of JQ experts on this thread, so I'll bite the bullet here as a novice.
The purpose of life is not to know JQ. I just want to process the JSON so I can move on and do whatever is actually important. Ideally, I'd just be able to tell GPT-codex to do what I want to do to the JSON in English.
We're not there yet, but in the meantime if there's another tool that allows me to know less in exchange for doing more, I'll gladly use it.
Same boat here. I ended up finding gron https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron which resolved that issue for me. Now I don't have to look up how to use jq each time I want to quickly find something in some JSON.