> SDKs do have their value. I agree! And a well designed API can certainly help workaround many of these problems. I would say that fully evaluating an SDK is

> SDKs do have their value. I agree! And a well designed API can certainly help workaround many of these problems. I would say that fully evaluating an SDK is a non-trivial undertaking though, especially when it comes to features like connection persistence. And then what if it turns out that the SDK doesn't support everything you want (which is often the case)? On the flip side - if a service has a good API, I can build my own wrapper which uses my own conventions very quickly. And that leads to what the main point of the article was meant to be: please design a good API so that I can opt out of your SDK if I want to. BTW, I think you were looking for "moot".