This just seems like theater to me. Having built complex APIs for 2 years is obviously much less desirable than having built complex APIs for 10. You will have

This just seems like theater to me. Having built complex APIs for 2 years is obviously much less desirable than having built complex APIs for 10. You will have seen more, interacted with more, hit more edge cases, etc. All this seems to do is make it harder for candidates to know if they're truly qualified, causing them to apply to more things, many of which they're not qualified for, wasting everyone's time.