Agreed. I was mostly hoping to mitigate any conclusion that the design was a result of them being .Net developers. :) Luckily there are some constructive comme

Agreed. I was mostly hoping to mitigate any conclusion that the design was a result of them being .Net developers. :) Luckily there are some constructive comments in this post which point out some valid concerns. This is a good chance to share opinions and learn a bit. Unfortunately there are a lot of developers out there who are tasked with projects and have no one in-house with experience. I was in that boat and it took developing and maintaining a lot of bad APIs to learn what made a good one.