I worked on a project automating some parts of an Azure infrastructure for a big company. Half-way through development, JSON integers returned by Azure changed

I worked on a project automating some parts of an Azure infrastructure for a big company. Half-way through development, JSON integers returned by Azure changed from strings to ints, back to strings. E.g., "42" became 42, then a few weeks later went back to "42". This and other API weirdness gave me such Azure PTSD that I promised myself I would never touch it again.