This is a straw man for clickbait. The articles the headline is responding to aren't complaining about the features of the new API, but about the removal of imp

This is a straw man for clickbait. The articles the headline is responding to aren't complaining about the features of the new API, but about the removal of important plugin functionality. The new features are a red herring. A declarative API could co-exist just fine with an API that supports adding a hook. I thought of flagging this but it's late and I'm not sure it's warranted and I'm gonna let the rest of HN figure out what to do.