From embedded experience I would say it could be benefitial to do paging only if you operate under heavy memory- or latency-constraints. But most APIs certainly

From embedded experience I would say it could be benefitial to do paging only if you operate under heavy memory- or latency-constraints. But most APIs certainly are not. Of course the should be some sort of maximum size, but I have seen APIs that return 1200 lines of text and require me to page them at 100 per request with no option to turn it off.