IBM API Connect Has a Real Consumer API, But Not a Real Front Door

I keep coming back to the same wall. Every company I talk to is “all in on AI,” every roadmap has an agent on it, and yet when I actually try to get a set of credentials so that something automated can call an API, I am back in a web form, clicking through a portal, proving I am a human who deserves a client_id. That contradiction does not get less absurd the more times I hit it.