Wish I could (actually, I'd prefer JSONB or other binary format). Unfortunately, every program in the UNIX ecosystem assumes unstructured text in pipes, and makes it my responsibility to glue them together by building ad-hoc parsers with grep, head, sort, sed and awk.
A lot of more recent programs (such as AWS, K8s tools) can easily output JSON. You can make schemas match, but you'll most of the time need to use something like jq to transform what one program outputs into what makes sense for the other.
I always try to design my tools with a "terse" output that makes it easier to pipe it into other programs.
