>The association of Stripe with simplicity and good dev experience could be more due to Stripe's marketing/PR ... I don't think it's marketing/PR so much as a

>The association of Stripe with simplicity and good dev experience could be more due to Stripe's marketing/PR ... I don't think it's marketing/PR so much as a halo effect and reputation from years ago. My experience with stripe 5 years ago was/is simpler and easier than it is looking at it today. More products/services/options/requirements - it's more complicated than it was years ago. But looking at it for a project 5 years ago, it was certainly simpler compared to authorize.net for what my project needed. Just the UI alone to go in and manage/test things was more straightforward and pleasant, even when I hit issues and roadblocks. Authorize.net looked like it hadn't changed much since 2005 or so when I'd looked at it then. May be better now - haven't looked since 2017.