That was my takeaway after building API Blocks. The goal was to display arbitrary data from APIs on a dashboard.

APIs just aren't standardized or stable enough, and it took too much effort to maintain the API library. The UX just wasn't up to scratch because almost every week a block on your dashboard would be broken because the API changed,or your auth expired or broke. The cost to maintain was not worth it.

An interconnected public web as data would be incredible but we just haven't built that.

Not to detract from the concept here with Benthos Studio, the use case is a bit different. But it is something to keep in mind, the end user might not be technical and APIs constantly changing might not be something they expected.