But indeed we agree on the "for humans" problem. I'm inclined to accept widely-repeated guidelines on technology that I'm just learning, but this is another instance where the fallacy became obvious when it was time to implement something. Kinda like any attempt to use a lot of inheritance in OOP, which is now recognized as silly.

I assume that a lot of problems are "solved," but continue to be surprised that they aren't. I defined an API using OpenAPI and am now trying to generate code for it and do some prototyping, but the whole ecosystem is a mess and the standard itself is only now shaking off some truly dumb gaffes.