Protos is more of a faster & smaller network serialization tradeoff vs. ease of development thing than a company scale thing. And a thing to do if you want to

Protos is more of a faster & smaller network serialization tradeoff vs. ease of development thing than a company scale thing. And a thing to do if you want to integrate with gRPC. I worked at a company that used protos from day one for example. Many large companies are still using JSON w/ schemas as their network serialization layer just fine.