If you're below the API, you are abstracted away to the rest of the system, more grist for the mill.
Whether this new world is good or bad for you largely reduces to if you're above or below the API.
If you are under the API, you are operating at its whim.
Even if you have a system that is working for you, helping you optimize what information to pay attention to and what tasks to prioritize, you could easily become "below the API" to the outside world.
By relying on the system, you have become totally captured by it.