The APIs are exactly the same. One is explicit, reading its signature is enough to understand what it does, the other one is implicit, requiring reading the met

The APIs are exactly the same. One is explicit, reading its signature is enough to understand what it does, the other one is implicit, requiring reading the method body. The implicit version readability mass increases fast as it makes further transitive calls, which are now all required reading. The explicit version mass is always constant: the signature.