Self-determination theory is a decent research-backed framework for discussing motivation. It would say that sharing your own interest is to help newcomers but ultimately it's up to them whether they internalize that interest.

more writing on it:

https://selfdeterminationtheory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017_Deci...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563210000130

Good point. In the example I gave, the request is forwarded to a business process which has a job ID.

In VS Code, you can create a debugger launch configuration for your API endpoint. Set the "request" attribute to "attach" and the "processID" attribute to the job ID of the production component that services your API. Set breakpoints and run this configuration. Then when a request arrives, you can debug the service and endpoints while viewing the REST request contents.

Here is a reference video; example starts at 4:00.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diLHwA0rlGM