I actually tend to agree with this take honestly. If I was an Architect over at netflix implementing QoE, and all my minions were making calls directly to the h

I actually tend to agree with this take honestly. If I was an Architect over at netflix implementing QoE, and all my minions were making calls directly to the html element for seeking instead of using the API I created, I'd want to catch that regression quickly too. That said, there is no public API for that functionality beyond the DOM element for anyone else, so I'm not sure what was expected for any sort of integration.