Agreed. "We'd have APIs if y'all didn't use them" is a really bad take. Part of the reason why API access is desirable is because it forms an effective safegua

Agreed. "We'd have APIs if y'all didn't use them" is a really bad take. Part of the reason why API access is desirable is because it forms an effective safeguard against some forms of company abuse. To argue that we can only have API access if nobody uses it for adversarial interoperability or to build 3rd-party clients or to bypass systems -- we might as well argue against API access entirely if that's going to be our position. The point of API access is to be able to use it.