This trend will be the death of the open content web. Almost nobody out there has the diligence to maintain a standard, documented API when they have the altern

This trend will be the death of the open content web. Almost nobody out there has the diligence to maintain a standard, documented API when they have the alternative of changing their own client-side code at whim (and breaking any code anyone else may have written). In some ways Lisp was wrong about "code is data"--data is far easier to analyze and repurpose, so obfuscating it behind code is a step backwards.