It really doesn’t matter how the API behaves unless there are external users. When you need to convince other people to use your API then those people will bri

It really doesn’t matter how the API behaves unless there are external users. When you need to convince other people to use your API then those people will bring their own expectations how the API behaves and then you need to manage those expectations. If your API is esocentric on its design choices other people might find it unexpected, curse and move to do something else.