I've hit this in scripting. I wanted to submit performance metrics from a build script to an analytics service another team was running, but the service only ac

I've hit this in scripting. I wanted to submit performance metrics from a build script to an analytics service another team was running, but the service only accepted gRPC. This meant the bash script had to somehow pull in the entire protobuf/gRPC stack so it could say "The build on this host for this branch took 12 minutes". I think accessibility from a broad range of environments is a disadvantage of the "protobufs everywhere" approach. I'm one of the few that still believes in dynamic typing though, so I'm probably biased.