protobuf dependency issue

I am using injective py in our project and it has conflicts with my bundled protobuf version.

It seems that now injective py depends on protobuf v5.26.1, and for some reason my bundled protobuf version is hard to modify because it is  also a thirdparty dependency..

Q:
1. is this version required? can I re-compile and downgrade to some version such as protobuf v4.21.6 ?