why is oauth still hard in 2023?

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ref www.nango.dev Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? 2023-04-26

Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? is a pressure test for how this cycle behaves (source). I track it because constraints show up before strategy does. The interesting part is what it makes feel inevitable.

context + claim

why is oauth still hard in 2023? shifts the center of gravity toward a new default. My claim: this is a habit-forming change, not a one-off event. If teams internalize the behavior, the market follows.

evidence stack

  • The visible change is only the surface; the incentive change is the durable part.
  • Adoption pressure shows up before the tooling catches up, which creates short-term friction.
  • The second-order effects are where I expect real compounding.

time horizon

Short term, this looks like a feature win. Mid term, it becomes a workflow expectation. Long term, it either hardens into a default or gets replaced by a quieter, more stable layer.

my take

I am leaning cautious: treat the change as real, but do not calcify it until the operational story holds.

governance drift compliance drag

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