I've suggested before that we should explore an independant organization that rates companies and their treatment of devs who use their API. If a company has a

I've suggested before that we should explore an independant organization that rates companies and their treatment of devs who use their API. If a company has a history of constantly trimming usage limits, it should be documented. At some threshold, recommendations could be made to avoid or be weary of certain APIs. We are returning back to the 90s where API access came from BD deals and the rest of us did dirty parsing to make things work. For a while we got the illusion those days may be gone. And why not, it sure felt like that. But now we are getting to a stage it's almost worse for services to have public or free APIs at all.