I was looking at a flame graph of an ingestion workload with @dliappis, and it looks like we parse the JSON representation of the index request twice when a document has both a pipeline and a final pipeline.

It's hard to know how much we would save on this benchmark since not all data streams in this benchmark had both a pipeline and a final pipeline, but the cost of parsing index request into maps of maps via IngestService represented 4.06% of overall CPU time according to the flame graph, so this might not be negligible.
server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/IngestDocument.java
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    /**
     * Checks whether the document contains a value for the provided path
     * @param path The path within the document in dot-notation
     * @return true if the document contains a value for the field, false otherwise
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the path is null, empty or invalid.
     */
    public boolean hasField(String path) {
        return hasField(path, false);
    }
    /**
     * Checks whether the document contains a value for the provided path
     * @param path The path within the document in dot-notation
     * @param failOutOfRange Whether to throw an IllegalArgumentException if array is accessed outside of its range
     * @return true if the document contains a value for the field, false otherwise
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the path is null, empty or invalid.
     */
    public boolean hasField(String path, boolean failOutOfRange) {
        FieldPath fieldPath = new FieldPath(path);
        Object context = fieldPath.initialContext;
        for (int i = 0; i < fieldPath.pathElements.length - 1; i++) {
            String pathElement = fieldPath.pathElements[i];
            if (context == null) {
                return false;
            }
            if (context instanceof Map<?, ?> map) {
                context = map.get(pathElement);
            } else if (context instanceof List<?> list) {
                try {
                    int index = Integer.parseInt(pathElement);