Totally agree. His arguments are basically "performance!" (which is honestly not important to 99% of CSV export users) and "It's underderspecified!" And while I can agree with the second, at least partly, in the real world the spec is essentially "Can you import it to Excel?". I'm amazed at how much programmers can discount "It already works pretty much everywhere" for the sake of more esoteric improvements.
All that said (and perhaps counter to what I said), I do hope "Unicode Separated Values" takes off. It's essentially just a slight tweak to CSV where the delimiters are special unicode characters, so you don't have to have complicated quoting/escaping logic, and it also supports multiple sheets (i.e. a workbook) in a single file.
All that said (and perhaps counter to what I said), I do hope "Unicode Separated Values" takes off. It's essentially just a slight tweak to CSV where the delimiters are special unicode characters, so you don't have to have complicated quoting/escaping logic, and it also supports multiple sheets (i.e. a workbook) in a single file.