Do you have any examples of the new API direction yet?
Ideally, it should be so simple that I can make a 2 minute video of it and by the end, you'll think "well that was obvious", as opposed to "ugh now I have to learn type theory? ffs"
I did a dopey little sketch on of the idea, fwiw https://twitter.com/psygnisfive/status/558287230662615040