The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?

Perverse incentives. They want Postman to have a cloud offering that's easy to charge customers for. Customers aren't all that interested in that, and have a ton of security worries about it.

Easy to find long security discussions: https://community.postman.com/t/forced-to-store-environments...

A customer of mine uses Postman for its API docs. I never use it to run API calls. I curl to the server from the terminal. I keep a file with the most common sequences and I can add -d @request.json much more easily than from within Postman. Basically I use it only to edit the documentation.

Enshittification at its best. I used Postman for several years before it become unusable for me. Didn't actually think too much about it, tried several alternatives (ApiDog, Bruno), but none came to the comfort Postman gave me before that.

Now I understand if engineers spend lots of time on software, somehow they need to get paid. But I still believe, there is a more authentic and acceptable path than what most companies do - make people dependend, make the software worse, introduce subscriptions, force you into plans, etc.

I haven't found a good substitute yet. I use Bruno, I use ApiDog, but they feel a little cumbersome at times. Good enough, but not great. I'd had loved to stay with Postman, but I'm not paying that money for a an API debug client.