MCP Is Last-Mile Plumbing

I have been trying to find the cleanest way to say something about Model Context Protocol for months, and it finally boiled down to a single sentence I cannot stop repeating to people: MCP is the one last thing that lets an LLM talk to the thing — but everything else, please still build a REST or GraphQL API. That is the whole sentence, and I think it is the clearest thing I have managed to say about MCP all year. I have been writing about this protocol for months, from how I actually use MCP across API Evangelist to MCP discovery and governance, watching every vendor now lead with an MCP serv