You aren't wrong. I think it depends on what your needs are. As well as what the scenarios are. If you are serializing this data a lot, then having ints vs s

You aren't wrong. I think it depends on what your needs are. As well as what the scenarios are. If you are serializing this data a lot, then having ints vs strings is a significant advantage. Again, it depends on your use case. If you don't care about serialization size, then I agree, it's extra effort that you may not need.