Of course you're being downvoted. But I'm totally with you on this one. As someone currently responsible for migrating services to gRPC at my company, I always

Of course you're being downvoted. But I'm totally with you on this one. As someone currently responsible for migrating services to gRPC at my company, I always say that the main reason people are switching is "because Google." While there are merits to gRPC and protobuf, I don't think there are enough advantages to throw away REST and JSON and all the tooling around it. The moment you start switching, you start feeling the pain. "Because Google" is also the main reason everyone wants to run their crap on Kubernetes. It's pure hype. Always makes me think of "You Are Not Google": https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb