Not the person you were discussing with, but I have to add that to me the main benefit of using Stubby et al. was exactly the schema that was so nicely searchab

Not the person you were discussing with, but I have to add that to me the main benefit of using Stubby et al. was exactly the schema that was so nicely searchable. I currently work in a place where the server-server API clients are generated based on TypeScript API method return types, and it's.. not great. The reality of this situation quickly devolves the types using "extends" from a lot of internal types that are often difficult to reason about. I know that it's possible for the ProtoBuf types to also push their tendrils quite deep into business code, but my personal experience has been a lot less frustrating with that than the TypeScript return type being generated into an API client.