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You've got to wrap the already basically-just-English SQL database in a layer of abstraction, then serve that as a proprietary API that's impossible to access without a precompiled library that targets a programming language you're not using and exposes methods that are 10x more difficult to use than a SELECT statement.
My job consists of creating internal apis for databases to be consumed by internal systems. So yes, wrapping databases in APIs is very common and sometimes required.
The part I find weird of my job, is that the database isn't one of our team. We're accessing someone else's database, to be consumed by our own api, and writing a api to do so nicely. That's the crooked part.
This is insanely common, tbh.
It's common, but still a tad weird.