[mdriley]

It seems like a lot of other technologies in this space have solved the listed problems while remaining compatible with browsers, load balancers, reverse proxies, etc.

It was a product choice not to offer a fallback path when HTTP/2 was unavailable. That choice made gRPC impossible to deploy in a lot of real-world environments.

What motivated that choice?

[lakomen]

Can you name one or more?

[mdriley]

one relevant datapoint: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-grpc-json-t...