That's pretty much been my take as well. Been looking at CockroachLabs (CockroachDB hosted cloud), and been kind of hard to get any detail if pgbouncer is beneficial for this, since I'm planning to connect via node_compat via Cloudflare Workers, and have kind of decided to punt the issue and connect directly for now in development, and closer to prod release do some tests with/without pgbouncer at each cloud location for the larger prod cluster instances for release.

Not the same service(s) as PG even if it's the same protocol, so I know it's really beneficial for connection queueing WRT my scenario for PG, but no idea on the CDB side.