MCP was always a bad idea?

The article argues that MCP has become a short-term workaround for a weaker generation of models and is now creating unnecessary complexity, context bloat, and operational overhead for IT teams. As LLMs become more capable at writing scripts, calling APIs, and using CLIs directly, the author contends that enterprises should shift toward standard HTTP APIs and content-negotiation patterns rather than building more infrastructure around MCP. For CIOs and technology leaders, the strategic implication is to treat MCP as a transitional integration layer, not a long-term platform investment, and to prioritize simpler, standards-based agent integration architectures that reduce maintenance burden and improve scalability.