Given all the awesome tech to come out of Facebook, I often wonder why their platform can be so hard to build against. I want to like this move, but a platform

Given all the awesome tech to come out of Facebook, I often wonder why their platform can be so hard to build against. I want to like this move, but a platform is only as good as its API, and for years their API offers have been poor. The Cambridge Analytica scandal didn't exactly help in this regard. This feels like a mixed message. One of wanting to be open, but also one of knowing that they can't allow access to personal data because they cannot (or will not) police its use. The cynic in me (and everyone else it seems) believes this is a regulation thing, and nothing to do with letting people build on their platform.