[alx_the_new_guy]

>In those cases, understanding the bussiness tends to be far more important than understanding the user experience.

Never understood the take that internal systems need a good UX because they very much do. Having been a consumer of ass-backwards designed software components, bad UX (apis, functions, other stuff) will inevitably propagate through the product and will rear their ugly head somewhere. Not to speak about "friction" and development velocity and so on.

Why yes, implementing this feature will cost you something like 2 hours. Not implementing it will either cost someone 4 hours to do it themselves or two hours over and over again to code around the lack of it. Please don't waste other people's time.

[nasmorn]

But all good apis are the same. You don’t need to care about baseball a lot to make your baseball api usable