Solid platform Good selection for scraping everywhere

It's highly usable, even if not the most attractive and up-to-date site. IT's very reliable and predictable, with easy to understand API references. It could have a few more features and slicker design, but the core functionality is plenty good enough. Great selection of APIs in the market as well.

I think it's perfectly suited to applications and automations that require scraping data sources and sites for specific information, for getting search results you can aggregate across a wide range of search products, and for looking for more difficult-to-find information on social media without having to learn each site's ins-and-outs. It's not as useful if you're just trying to use standard APIs that already exist (if there's a public official API, you're better off using that in most cases), and if you're trying to do headless private API calls for services (like eBay). This is purely public site scraping.