This reminds me of what I've seen happen with the internal health-check endpoint often added to APIs. Simple at first, but eventually there are endpoints to cau

This reminds me of what I've seen happen with the internal health-check endpoint often added to APIs. Simple at first, but eventually there are endpoints to cause the health-check to synthetically fail for deployment purposes; the health-check is also monitoring downstream dependencies; the health-check becomes much more and much less than it was intended to be.