Absolutism Around API Tools Increases Friction And Failure

I know you believe your tools are the best. I mean, from your vantage point, they are. I also know that when you are building a new API tool, your investors want you to position your tooling as the best. The one solution to rule them all. They want you to work hard to make your tools the best but also make sure and demonize other tooling as being inferior, out of date, and something dinosaurs use.

I know this absolute belief in your tooling feels good and right, but you are actually creating friction for your users and potentially failure or at least conflict within their teams. Absolutism, along with divide and conquer strategies for evangelizing API tooling, works for great short term financial strategies but doesn't do much to help us on the ground actually developing, managing, and sustaining APIs.