Completely agree - it’s a tonne of extra ceremony for essentially no payoff. JSON-based RESTful services are just simpler and more universal. If you want code

Completely agree - it’s a tonne of extra ceremony for essentially no payoff. JSON-based RESTful services are just simpler and more universal. If you want code gen from API specs, you can have OAS specs that you create/edit with Stoplight Studio, and then generate types/clients/server-stubs for basically any language with OpenAPI Generator, just as you would with gRPC. And obviously can generate docs, etc. from them too. But unlike with gRPC, you can still use widely available REST middleware, browser dev tools request inspection works better, can curl your services, anyone can call them without special tooling, etc.