Why break Facebook down instead of requiring large social platforms to provide exhaustive open APIs? The latter is much more constructive, purely technical, an

Why break Facebook down instead of requiring large social platforms to provide exhaustive open APIs? The latter is much more constructive, purely technical, and instead of levelling field as a one-off actually lays down the foundation required for a heterogenous social tech landscape. Meanwhile, the breaking down is political, and does not address the underlying mechanics that will keep producing these quasi-monopolies.