I kind of hate the fact that the term "API" has lost its generality in the minds of a huge number of practitioners, and people now assume it refers to a set of network (usually HTTP) request and response formats.

It's great that we have a succinct word to describe programmatic interfaces built on top of HTTP. It's not great that there's no longer a universally-understood word for the original more general meaning even though, as this thread demonstrates, the original meaning is still as relevant as ever.