If the system is out to get you, become part of the system.

Is that you, Silvio Berlusconi?

I like it because it's simple and it works

You keep using that word. Notepad is "simple". This is not. Powerful, yes. Simple, no.

the development of GPU drivers that are not useful in their business context

*points at summary*

Let me put it this way - how much worse could your boss/team lead/manager screw things up if they thought they could code?

You're right, better leave them doing the same job with a convoluted Excel spreadsheet.

I suspect the actual DNS being hunted for are the cheats' "DRM" servers that ensure you paid the guy who made the cheat money.

So, this raises the question: is there a meta-cheat that cracks the DRM?

I don't see why any of this wouldn't be possible with text logs. Yes, you can write GUIs that parse text log files. Yes, you can write an utility that does all the grepping and sorting for you. Yes, you can filter out logs from the previous boot. I don't think the performance loss would be noticeable.

So your arguments in favor of binary log files seem quite moot.