To continue the plumber metaphor: some systems are like black boxes with a lot of pipes sticking out - and they will route their raw sewage into your freshwater

To continue the plumber metaphor: some systems are like black boxes with a lot of pipes sticking out - and they will route their raw sewage into your freshwater connector depending on barely documented and sometimes non-deterministic configuration parameters. The API of 10 year old closed source enterprise systems that have grown over time by buying this solution provider and that and where documented methods may work or not... shudders, no, that's not plumbing at all, that is more like playing Minecraft in a toxic waste dump.