@atomicpoet@fediversenews It mirrors early Twitter and a little bit early Reddit where building tools that interact with the site were heavily encouraged.
I recall early days of twitter where libraries/programs to communicate with Twitter sprang up in every prog. language and devs in thousands of organizations built all sorts of programmatic communications through Twitter.
Sometimes words come along which are perfect. Schadenfreude is one, enshitification is another 🙂