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> That doesn't make them wrong.

What if you are downstream from these changes, relying on a product that uses these APIs, and now you are negatively affected? You wouldn't be thinking that that their lack of planning or caution is a reasonable way of doing business.

Perhaps your due diligence should have caught this issue ahead of time, but it's far from unreasonable for people to apply research or experience when it's available.



What if you are downstream from these changes, relying on a product that uses these APIs, and now you are negatively affected?

You resolve the problem and carry on. Every business will have challenges like that. You can't mitigate them all ahead of time, at least not without missing a bunch of opportunities right now.

As a developer I find it hard to build things I know will break in the future. I find it hard to build things that might break in the future. Sometimes the opportunity in front of you makes it worthwhile regardless.




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