Your experience reminds me of this one phone platform with poor third party app support but a pretty vibrant indie developer community. They'd make unofficial c

Your experience reminds me of this one phone platform with poor third party app support but a pretty vibrant indie developer community. They'd make unofficial clients for all sorts of things, only to eventually get lawyered out of existence. It was both sad and hilarious: "Hi, to protect the blah blah blah of our service you must take down your unofficial application" "Okay, but is there an official client coming for the platform?" "We have nothing to share at this time."