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This has been a major frustration for me as a UI developer on the current application I work on. The UI is often hamstrung by how the backend API was implemented. There are frequently cases where we stitch together pre-existing API functionality to make something work in a far-from-ideal manner just because it would take longer to do it right and no one is interested.

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I've seen a similar thing happen. It all started with good intentions, like only having simple endpoints that do "one and only one thing".

In the end the backend was pure and beautiful, but the the frontend devs had to perform joins in the the client and make 21 API calls in a 20-item list and then everything goes to hell.

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