The author makes a good point which is that engineers have a tendency to couch emotional and political rationalizations in technical terms and then annoyingly b

The author makes a good point which is that engineers have a tendency to couch emotional and political rationalizations in technical terms and then annoyingly believe that their objectivity is unassailable. That's definitely a thing. But we must recognize that an API is fundamentally a technical construct, so you can't really have an informed political discussion about an API without exploring the technical aspects at the same time. The devil is in the details, as they say, and APIs are nothing but a big pile of details.