My problem with Swagger is almost the opposite... it solves the problem (APIs are very complicated to use!) by embracing this complexity with more complexity and more tools. Rather, I believe the solution is a push to just have simpler APIs.
It's crazy to me that it's harder to write a Swagger file than it is to write the API itself. And there's a lot of tooling that benefits from Swagger, but... I've found they all work 80%. Codegen, documentation, etc get 80% of the way there.
(Also, OAS 3 has linking, which is very similar to your hypermedia complaint)
It's crazy to me that it's harder to write a Swagger file than it is to write the API itself. And there's a lot of tooling that benefits from Swagger, but... I've found they all work 80%. Codegen, documentation, etc get 80% of the way there.
(Also, OAS 3 has linking, which is very similar to your hypermedia complaint)