This is a sham. You need to go through a certification process which costs $$$ before you can get access to those APIs even if the banking data is processed locally, which will only empower the incumbents while locking out open-source solutions and indie developers (remember that a lot of tools & products we use started as someone's side-project; this regulation locks those out by default).

At least with credential sharing & screen-scraping nobody can lock you out. Does it suck? Yeah. But I'd rather take a solution that sucks than no solution at all.