[dkarl]

The vast majority of extant public APIs in the wild today. Internally, people write a lot of services that process records from Kafka topics, SQS queues, emails, file uploads, etc. The ecosystem already exists and is in need of tooling.

> This article constructs straw man arguments against OpenAPI

I don't see that at all, and why would they? AsyncAPI is leveraging OpenAPI's status as a de facto standard tool for synchronous REST APIs to promote itself as a complementary standard tool for async APIs. It wouldn't benefit them to denigrate OpenAPI.