I think numbers obscure the rational, what you have outlined is position that eventually puts us in a world where everything is glued shut and the only way in i

I think numbers obscure the rational, what you have outlined is position that eventually puts us in a world where everything is glued shut and the only way in is via someone's walled garden. Most systems could use an RS-232 port and simple text protocol to do everything the keypad and the display screen could do. Many systems use SQLite for instance, at least expose a RO version of that database. There are lots of ways to expose access w/o having to support v0.0.1 of the API forever. But what you are advocating for is basically locking everyone out of your products so that the rest of the org is affected. Rather than view the wackos who file support requests on an API that only 1:50e3 customers use, find out why they need those extensions and cater to their needs. Often it is for a whole new market.