Modern workloads refers to the kind of applications commonly built today, like http/json/grpc webservices running in containers. And yes the HttpClient is mode

Modern workloads refers to the kind of applications commonly built today, like http/json/grpc webservices running in containers. And yes the HttpClient is modern. Your entire argument so far has been a single RFC issue that is labeled up-for-grabs because it's so minor and doesn't really affect anyone. Claiming the http functionality and the whole stack isn't modern because of it just doesn't add up.