Sure, that’s the case if all your software does is make a couple of api calls and you have very few stake holders. But when you have built a big service around

Sure, that’s the case if all your software does is make a couple of api calls and you have very few stake holders. But when you have built a big service around an external api, you have thousands or millions of users and thousands of employees - replacing an api is not just a big technical project, it’s also a huge internal political issue for the organization to rally the necessary teams to make the changes. People hate change, they actively resist it. The current environment is forcing companies to adapt and adopt the new technologies. But once they’ve done it, they’ll need an even bigger reason to switch apis.