Even though makevtile() supports uncompressed PBF data, the code at https://github.com/mapbox/tilelive-vector/blob/master/backend.js#L113 only allows compressed data to be treated as vector tiles. There are several cases when vector tile gets uncompressed and processed by other layers, and they have to be re-compressed just so that tilelive-vector handles it correctly.
Should there be a header or a URI parameter to allow for this?