Server grabs are not as evil as you might expect, but there is agreement
in that their usage should be limited.

Server grabs can cause things to go rather wrong when mutter emits
a signal while it has grabbed the server. If the receiver of that signal
waits for a synchronous action performed by another client, then you
have a deadlock. This happens with Mali binary GLESv2 drivers :(

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721345