There's a sense in which APIs are elitist, but that's a misuse of terms, I think. Where I'm from, elitist has negative connotations. There's a difference, at l

There's a sense in which APIs are elitist, but that's a misuse of terms, I think. Where I'm from, elitist has negative connotations. There's a difference, at least to me, between expert and elitist. Elitist is if you would refuse to use a download csv button, even if it fit your use case because you are a real developer who only uses APIs. Lots of things require expertise, and conflating prerequisites and elitism seems like an overall loss for effective communication.