Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No.

Describe the solution you'd like

#4734 Changed the entire behavior of the params serializer, breaking using any custom functionality on the consumer side. Add a boolean switch to mimic pre 1.x behavior (default is false) and send the params directly to the encode function

Describe alternatives you've considered

Tried working with new solution; it did not pan out well and led to more bugs with our requests