I don't think that's true. Drepper was against strlcat for specific reasons. And in the meanwhile the C11 standard had adopted an alternative (but imo worse) AP

I don't think that's true. Drepper was against strlcat for specific reasons. And in the meanwhile the C11 standard had adopted an alternative (but imo worse) API for it, based on the Microsoft stuff. Framing this as a general rejection of APIs because they are from OpenBSD is highly disingenuous.