If you have good reasons to build on a third party API and you do it responsibly (not over-leveraging yourself, not annoying the API provider) then it’s fine, s

If you have good reasons to build on a third party API and you do it responsibly (not over-leveraging yourself, not annoying the API provider) then it’s fine, sure. Perhaps the real value of that rule is that it makes you conscious of the risks and pushes you to mitigate them.