This solves 2 problems which were introduced when we moved our API to a separate sub module:

1. Duplicate API files: currently all our API is vendored in the main module.
2. API imports in our code are using the vendored version which led to poor UX because local changes to the API are not being reflected immediately in the code until the vendor dir is updated. Also using the IDE "go to" feature will send you to the vendor folder where you can't do any updates/changes.