You can spend a few days getting to know jq or you can happily live with your 100+ purpose-built scripts. I know which one I prefer.
I don't even process complex JSON...it's usually pretty basic. But being able to quickly select parts out of streams of JSON data on the CLI is incredibly useful to me, and learning even just the basics of jq has paid for itself a hundred times over by now.
Granted, a lot of my job right now is data forensics stuff, so I breath this kind of stuff. You might never need jq.
I don't even process complex JSON...it's usually pretty basic. But being able to quickly select parts out of streams of JSON data on the CLI is incredibly useful to me, and learning even just the basics of jq has paid for itself a hundred times over by now.
Granted, a lot of my job right now is data forensics stuff, so I breath this kind of stuff. You might never need jq.