We hand wrote clients at my last microservice based gig. It was marginally slower than automated clients and we did run into a few cases of teams "waisting" the

We hand wrote clients at my last microservice based gig. It was marginally slower than automated clients and we did run into a few cases of teams "waisting" their time writing their own clients; that was fixed by the authoring service team also authoring clients. It wasn't a big issue