Thinking of that problem in terms of engineers not being the biggest expense is also a silly way to approach the problem. At 20000 engineers, it’s a net positi

Thinking of that problem in terms of engineers not being the biggest expense is also a silly way to approach the problem. At 20000 engineers, it’s a net positive to add a full time person to save everybody else 5 seconds a day. If protobuf were such a big waste of engineering time, then working to make it more efficient for engineers while being no worse on the wire would be worth a lot of dedicated engineers.