This resonates with my experience, which is basically doing this the wrong way and watching all of it play out the way OP warns it will. I'm sure there are oth

This resonates with my experience, which is basically doing this the wrong way and watching all of it play out the way OP warns it will. I'm sure there are others with the opposite experience but I can vouch both for the desire and expectation of devs to build general-purpose APIs when not needed, and the ongoing pain resulting from that year after year.