The link also mentions the (useful) name for this phenomenon, Hyrum's Law: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it doesn’t matter what you promise. Any

The link also mentions the (useful) name for this phenomenon, Hyrum's Law: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it doesn’t matter what you promise. Any observable behavior of your system will be dependent upon by somebody." Related xkcd variant: "Every change breaks someone's workflow." https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/