First, Ingress had a purpose to serve, and it has served that purpose - it is relatively easy to handle low-complexity apps with generic Ingress. But low-compl

First, Ingress had a purpose to serve, and it has served that purpose - it is relatively easy to handle low-complexity apps with generic Ingress. But low-complexity apps don't stay that way. What you're describing is very much the way my brain has gone. In my experience, most users end up using at least one non-portable annotation on Ingress. The logical conclusion then, is that people care about features MORE than portability in this facet of the API. This is not surprising to me, given how religious the debate tends to be...