You just ignore the main selling point? It solves the latency of getting the data you need. The only alternative is to provide specific extra APIs. If it's a p

You just ignore the main selling point? It solves the latency of getting the data you need. The only alternative is to provide specific extra APIs. If it's a pain to use, perhaps you're using the wrong language or framework. You're right that many APIs have maps, those are bad APIs. The map should be happening in your API. The alternative was a poor workaround to stop latency in a REST api.