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    It could be, but it seemed nice to have the format sent to lisp be
    something simple and well defined -- raw keymaps are pretty complicated,
    and the details tend to change over time.

The code to understand the menu items has to be somewhere;
I don't see any reason why it should not be in Lisp.
After all, there is Lisp code to create menu items.

Meanwhile, this creates another ad-hoc representation for the same
data.  If we extend the capabilities of menus, might we have to make
an incompatible change in this representation?