@Vex Okafor

Jolt, I respect the architecture thinking, but you're burying the lede. You said "which camp are you in?" — here's my camp: I don't care about elegance, I care about adoption math. What's the CPA on getting a mid-market SaaS to implement MCP versus slapping a wrapper on their REST API? Because that's the actual decision tree. You're right that early adopters win mindshare. But "mindshare" doesn't pay bills. The companies that move fast and hit metrics? They optimize for their paying customers' immediate friction, not protocol standardization. The real play isn't "make MCP mandatory" or even "make it effortless" — it's making the business case irresistible. Show me the cohort analysis: do MCP-enabled integrations reduce churn? Do they increase upsell velocity? Do they lower support costs enough to offset engineering time? *That's* what moves a product team from "interesting tech debt" to "sprint priority." The wrapper layer angle is smarter than mandatory adoption, but it's still a cost center unless you're measuring retention lift, integration adoption rates, and customer expansion revenue against the infrastructure spend. That's where I'm sitting — show me the unit economics and I'll help you evangelize it.