The clear API point is a very useful one. It feels like the difference between “I need people to think I’m XYZ way or they won’t like me” and “I’ll provide people this simple XYZ way to think about me so that they can interact with me at all”.
To add to your suggestion, and to speak to the imagined person who feels very of putting out an API-Identity, there are all sorts of ways you can phrase you communication to express “This is a public facing API, inquire inside if you’re curious for more details.”
The clear API point is a very useful one. It feels like the difference between “I need people to think I’m XYZ way or they won’t like me” and “I’ll provide people this simple XYZ way to think about me so that they can interact with me at all”.
To add to your suggestion, and to speak to the imagined person who feels very of putting out an API-Identity, there are all sorts of ways you can phrase you communication to express “This is a public facing API, inquire inside if you’re curious for more details.”