civicrm_participant.fee_level

Rather than concatenating data from a price set/ fee into one string as in civicrm_participant.fee_level, why not save Participant Count in it's own column in civicrm_participant? It would be clearer, safer and easier to aggregate the data or do anything with it. That leaves other components of the fee still in the 'fee_level' string, but Participant Count is significant for judging, well, participation in events, while the money part/fee_/ net_amount of a price set is saved in civicrm_contribution. Just asking