1. for consistency with the serializers in swh.core
2. it's not clear to me that we ever needed that (it was added in
[1] with no rational)
3. it messes with swh-search reading from the journal and expecting
JSON-like data. (T2876#54729)
[1] https://forge.softwareheritage.org/R65:64cd01fc7c049123e16341fa93239013f152bacc