Comment by bunderbunder

Y'know, after working with gRPC for a while I've decided that I actually like explicitly putting the version in the name whenever you allow multiple versions to exist simultaneously.

The thing about making it explicit is that it means you can see what version is being used just by reading the code, and you can also find usages of a specific version with a simple text search. Without that, it's more likely that maintainers will get stuck relying on more complicated - and therefore brittle - tooling to manage the code.