As a sibling has already pointed out, this blog post has nothing to do with “Google themselves”. In addition, “nothing really for end users” is obviously bullsh

As a sibling has already pointed out, this blog post has nothing to do with “Google themselves”. In addition, “nothing really for end users” is obviously bullshit and inconsistent with what the post says itself, e.g. > This means your existing proto3 projects can now use default field values and extensions. proto3 not having required and default values was a big source of complaints, so supporting these indefinitely into the future with feature flags instead of having to be stuck forever on proto2 has to be a welcome change for a subset of users, at the very least.