Dependency API (MetadataComponentDependency) is awesome!
It is a feature every dev/arch loves, but still in beta.
A few years ago they were even thinking of removing it.
The product management at Salesforce had announced in the beta group in 2021 that "Dependency API ... is not built on a foundation solid and robust enough to declare it GA... we will be putting together a plan for removing the current Beta from public access".
The same "custom schema product area" team that implemented it was focusing on Data Cloud going forward.
At that time I was working for them on a couple of migration tools (Financial Services/Health Cloud) that used the Dependency API.
As soon as I found out, I had to let their team know "if this API - which is used by Salesforce itself - is deprecated it will break these tools advertised as facilitating the way to FS/Health clouds". No bueno! 🚨
Fortunately, others gave some similar feedback and the feature stayed available, although in beta, thus incomplete:
* no standard fields
* limited to 2k records
* Reports not included
* no queryMore()
* no ORDER BY/OFFSET
* very limited filters on WHERE clause
Michael Boyle Do you remember that?
