While I largely agree with most of the points made, I strongly disagree with the objections made about APIs. In general, that section seems to have been written

While I largely agree with most of the points made, I strongly disagree with the objections made about APIs. In general, that section seems to have been written with the assumption that the web application is the only client an API can have. This ignores mobile applications, desktop applications, third party services, webhooks, SDKs and maybe even command line interfaces. The more standardized the API, the easier it is to create multiple clients for it; it's one of the principles of the clean architecture even.