Comment by creesch

Don't forget the tradition of having to migrate to a new API after a while because this one gets deprecated for "reasons". Not just a newer version, but a complete non backwards compatible new API that also requires its own setup.

To be fair, that might have changed in recent years. But after having to deal with that a few times for a few hobby projects I simply stopped trying. Can't imagine how it is for companies making use of these APIs. I guess it provides work for teams on otherwise stable applications...