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Thanks - I really appreciate that! On one hand it is partly this, the uptime/reliability/LTS endpoints have been the focus of many years of work.

However, that said, I think in the majority of the actual cases I'm describing above the cause is more a combination of 1.) the surprising percentage of tech companies that appear to be in a state of continual organizational dysfunction and 2.) how API's are inherently a background type of thing like lloydatkinson wrote!

In about 1 in 10 cases I'd also say the cause is actually because of merger/acquisition - which is just always a complex and organizationally challenging process.