I think the lesson is actually more about how do proper versioning and message serialization in higher risk distributed systems. Higher message versions should

I think the lesson is actually more about how do proper versioning and message serialization in higher risk distributed systems. Higher message versions should fail to deserialize and cause the message to re-queue (or go to a dead letter queue). Then you monitor queue length like a hawk and have a plan in place for rolling back not just the consumers but the producers as well