Watch as I don't use protobuf because it is horrible.

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Tada!

If you patch clients to google services in Python to use json instead of grpc they get faster and more reliable. A lot faster. Benchmark it!

  def get_json_client() -> CloudLoggingQueryClient:
      """Client for log queries (JSON transport, avoids gRPC overhead)."""
      client = google.cloud.logging.Client.from_service_account_info(...)
      client._use_grpc = False
      return client

For me that is how I know something like protobuf is good. It is a nuisance to manage and distribute the definitions, adds a build step even to languages with no build step normally, is slower than almost every alternative, and artificially restricts you from doing lots of common things. It's so good!

And look at the code quality of the implementation! It's like a team of interns wrote it while drunk. It is a complete spaghetti mess, but has tons of super convoluted micro optimizations that are slower than just doing the most obvious thing, but make the implementation confusing and indirect. It's trash code.