The thing I’m trying to say is that “having an API” does not matter in the long term if the API does not expose the functionality needed to use it properly.
And TBF if someone joined Lemmy only because it had an API and nothing else then they’re gonna be in for a very rude awakening sooner or later as the troubles of federation that previous (mostly microblogging) platforms have encountered and attempted to solve (not to mention novel problems due to the community oriented nature of Lemmy) start to show up.
This is only going to get worse, and throwing “more API” into the fire won’t fix any of the important problems at hand.