is pretty nice because you can inspect a file or dataset on a server (no X) before downloading, to see if you even want to bother. Or you can pass it along through a series of pipes to just get the rows you want.
I’m not sure where that quote is from but it is incorrect, CSVs aren’t easily viewed or modified in text editors in general (at least not in any way that takes advantage of their tabular nature).
There’s at least a slight chance that tab separated values will look ok in a text editor (although in general, nope).
