@dysfun@treehouse.systems Oh, for sure. This is what I always aim for in my API designs, but it's *hard* work, and requires a degree of bidirectional engagement with other humans that a lot of developers don't seem to feel comfortable with.

I've long been wondering whether part of the "opinionated framework" ideology can be explained by people (knowingly or otherwise) using it as an excuse not to have to do this hard work, by pretending that the easy-but-mediocre "solution" is the only one that exists.

Unfortunately this ideology of the pretend-single-solution also makes it really difficult to start conversations about other, *better* solutions.

Most of the hard work in good API design is figuring out the principles you can follow to make the design process easier and more reliable, which is a one-off cost - but I can't really share the findings of the work I've done there, because there's no public conversation to insert it into...