For rapid development, potentially yes, as is easy enough to slap [XmlIgnore] and [JsonIgnore] on properties you don't want serialised in responses. I actually

For rapid development, potentially yes, as is easy enough to slap [XmlIgnore] and [JsonIgnore] on properties you don't want serialised in responses. I actually agree with you that an API response ought to be a different class, but you probably also want to consider it more carefully than using automation to generate the mapping.