I made an argument like yours and kinda talked myself out of it. Validation while in production makes no sense, I agree. But automated testing… I bet you can c

I made an argument like yours and kinda talked myself out of it. Validation while in production makes no sense, I agree. But automated testing… I bet you can catch some unintentional changes to your JSON output while testing. Not all of them, but some. Maybe even enough to justify keeping the schema current.