But no, it was more around cases where we wanted t...

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[fellshard]

But no, it was more around cases where we wanted the benefit of generic facilities, but had to rely on 'type tags' just to convey type data for persistence. Trying to build a store in Java that lets you reconstruct arbitrary types based on a type tag? It's a mess, and you can't really be sure it works without heavy testing because the type system fails to help you.