API naming is hard because of the conflicting goals: 1. You want to make it easy to type/read. 2. You want to make it descriptive. (conflicting with #1) 3. Y

API naming is hard because of the conflicting goals: 1. You want to make it easy to type/read. 2. You want to make it descriptive. (conflicting with #1) 3. You want to make it consistent and unique. 4. You want to make it compatible with older APIs. (conflicting with #3) 5. You want to make it unambiguous. 6. You want to make it flexible/amenable to future changes. (conflicting with #5) ... etc, etc. It's just impossible to meet all these requirements with developers that live in a different time and space.