How is Protobuf 'overly complicated'? I'm not talking about gRPC here - because trying to compare bare ASN.1 and gRPC is just dishonest. This is especially ric

How is Protobuf 'overly complicated'? I'm not talking about gRPC here - because trying to compare bare ASN.1 and gRPC is just dishonest. This is especially rich when you're comparing protobuf to ASN.1 - which is probably mostly known for having dozens of competing, obscurely-named encoding formats to choose from. And for them being so complex to implement that it regularly causes bugs and security issues in software...