Over the course of the last few months, I've been tracking a number of issues where the answer was "roll back to an earlier version", and often when I ask people to try the newest version, but sub in the gRPC C++ bindings, it also works fine. (Or sometimes even better than the older version.)

There is something going on there that needs to be figured out. I'm making this to track related things independently of adjacent issues.

Potentially related:
#679 (comment)
#788
#789
#818
#825
#850