Exactly right, but over the past six years there&#x27;s been a strong (and accelerating) trend among developers of &quot;<i>lalala</i> we don&#x27;t want to know how anything works!  give us an API and go away.&quot;<p>Most developers I&#x27;ve seen reject even learning about networks or DNS or operating systems or databases.  Such willful ignorance boggles the mind, but they are praised because their goals are shipping half-broken things as rapidly as possible to flip upwards for those oh-so-tasty acquihire payouts.<p>We even saw this week how overconsumption of convenience APIs can put entire companies in danger when those privately controlled convenience APIs just decide to shut down one day.  Convenience of immediacy always seems to trump connivence of long term stability.