Comment by pbowyer

> Stripe APIs being simple and easy is a meme from the 2010s. It isn't anymore.

I'm working with Stripe subscriptions at the moment for a charity taking donations via their website. The subtle differences between subscriptions done through Stripe checkout and subscriptions set up yourself using Stripe elements are by turn infuriating and frustrating.

The documentation is geared towards people using checkout. Stripe's own AI help could find us a bit of information which going through the documentation didn't give us, and it even struggled to find the reference in the docs for it.

One product, two different ways to use it, and slightly diverging feature sets between the two. Argh!