Python has a "batteries included" approach to standard library construction. To that end, commonly used procedures are often included as functions; adding sugar to the language is often exchanged for adding sugar to libraries.

One of these common procedures in small-scale scripting tasks is loading a JSON file as simple data structures and saving simple data structures as a JSON file. This is normally handled using context managers, json.load(), and json.dump(). This is a bit cluttered and, I'd argue, not quite as Pythonic as the philosophy demands. I have a small file containing this code:

import json

def load_file(filename, *args, **kwargs):
    with open(filename, "r") as fp:
        data = json.load(fp, *args, **kwargs)
    return data

def save_file(data, filename, *args, **kwargs):
    with open(filename, "w") as fp:
        json.dump(data, fp, *args, **kwargs)

I'd say, toss these two functions into the json module. Those two functions contain the clutter. For all other users, loading and saving JSON files become one-line function calls. This is convenient and batteries-included.

This idea is discussed several times. Last discussion thread is:
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/YHO575YY4FQC3GBDF4SKOWIEAUSY3OQX/#YHO575YY4FQC3GBDF4SKOWIEAUSY3OQX

I created a new vote for naming.
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-new-function-for-reading-json-from-path/7603