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> Now they can remove all third party sellers from their platform and cite a trust & safety risk.

If they remove third party sellers from their platform, I might go back to buying things on Amazon.

> Why else would the API be absolutely ancient? A huge change is coming.

What motivations do they have to change it? Amazon has very little incentive to change an API that is a cash cow. The AdWords API is much the same. It's a SOAP api that largely hasn't changed in 5+ years.

I hope they do this, for a more consistent product experience. I actually do not trust Amazon to deliver a legitimate product now.

I don't expect a big change unless customers start leaving in droves. Something like half of Amazon's revenue is a direct result of the third party sellers, they won't cut that off anytime soon. They neglect those sellers and the API because there is no incentive not to.

Third party sellers are cash cows once you finish monoplising the market, sellers will be begging to give Amazon more and more marketing money to move their products.