Which is a good point, consistency across endpoints and requests. I guess my brain just looks at API requests as “how can I get the most relevant data with the least redundant data with the smallest request footprint.”
The follower endpoint being, quite possibly, one of the most requested endpoints in the API.
The “Get users” endpoint, on the other hand, is great since multiple users can be requested at once. So if I poll the first page of Followers, i can then send the newest User IDs as a single request to Get Users, rather than individual ones.
Guess its give and take when it comes to the two of them. Same number of requests to Followers as before, MUCH less redundant data overall compared to V3 and V5, but also less overall requests needed toward Get Users since it can be bulk requested