Feature Description
When an existing tablet restarts, it always comes up as the type specified by --init_tablet_type, this can make maintenance and upgrades more challenging or lead to unexpected behavior with vttable when services restart who's TabletType have changed external to the service definition.
Use Case(s)
- Upgrading 
vttablet binaries, being able to restart and have types persist. 
- allow all tablets to initially deploy as 
SPARE, with types changed to REPLICA/RDONLY as needed and have types persist on service restarts without edits & reload of .service files.