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In software you should be familiar that exposing a debugging interface can be a 10 minute job. Exposing a public service can be a 3 month job. And not just for developers, but also for documentation writers, marketing, legal, and so on.

If you're an expert, then you can hack with the debug interface, many enthusiasts do things like that with their devices.

And if you're not an expert, you don't want, you can't, and you'd never need to script your washing machine.