Have a look at the Go clients for example. There are proper type safe clients for each API generated form our protobuf definitions.

> Type safety is worse for http calls because you literlly have no idea at compile time what the data will be.

We promise we will return data as per API spec ;)

> The data is actually very small

For this particular example, I guess you are right.

Our vision is that all APIs will have uniform clients, docs etc, so in aggregate it will provide a very convenient workflow. So instead of downloading a.json and b.xml and c.yaml (if possible at all due to size) and defining data structures yourself, just import our library and you are good to go.

But as I said, YMMV. If it's not your cup of tea, I understand that too.