I almost rage-quit my own side project last month because I spent 14 hours fighting AWS API Gateway just to validate a single API key. Actually, I didn't quit. I just got so unbelievably frustrated with the extortionate pricing and miserable UX of modern API tools that I rage-built my own Gateway in Go instead. If you've ever built a public-facing API, you already know the nightmare. You write your core business logic in a weekend, and then hit a massive brick wall. When you look at ...