I wrote my own Protobuf implementation (well, with some changes). Ditching the default values was one of the changes I made. I don't see any reason to have th

I wrote my own Protobuf implementation (well, with some changes). Ditching the default values was one of the changes I made. I don't see any reason to have that. But I don't think that Protobuf is a reasonable or even decent protocol in general. It has a lot of nonsense and bad planning. Having default values is probably not in the ten worst things about Protobuf.