To avoid introducing a breaking change in SERVER-98630 we opted to noop if a user declared group.id or auto.offset.reset as a non-string type, the alternative was failing with a user error.

We log an error during these scenarios, we should check to see if this error has occurred and if not we should go ahead and make string a requirement. If the error has occurred we should determine the best steps, but likely working with the customer to fix their invalid config prior to introducing a breaking change.

Look for TODOs