As someone that got a lot of value out of client side load balancers as a language neutral network library (e.g. we ran envoy under synapse for a while) From th

As someone that got a lot of value out of client side load balancers as a language neutral network library (e.g. we ran envoy under synapse for a while) From the start the Istio design choices tended to address problems we didn't have / felt like architectural dream states while making problems we did have harder to address. The messaging and overall focus seems to have improved and focused more on meat and potatoes features but there's still a number of things that are hard to tweak via the standard istio apis that we have to backdoor in there.