Exactly. If it's that verbose and painful for a public API like Shopify/GitHub (where the 'flexibility' argument is strongest), it makes even less sense for internal enterprise apps.
We are paying that same complexity tax you described, but without the benefit of needing to support thousands of unknown 3rd-party developers.
We are paying that same complexity tax you described, but without the benefit of needing to support thousands of unknown 3rd-party developers.