What a ridiculously limited view of what apis do. What about being able to make a credit card payment, customize a google map, or do anything that involves int

What a ridiculously limited view of what apis do. What about being able to make a credit card payment, customize a google map, or do anything that involves interacting with a user account? If the complaint is that there are needlessly complicated apis out there, it's a valid one. But the solution completely ignores any problem that does't fall into a very simple data provider model.