[Refactor]: Use connectapi instead of custom API calls

[vituri]

Most of the code here is about making API calls to Connect in order to get data.

In other projects, I've used the connectapi package to download this sort of data. If you think this would be a useful refactor, I can write a PR. Currently I am working on something related (shiny usage data), so maybe we can talk more about the details in other place.

[DeepanshKhurana]

Hey! I appreciate the suggestion. So, this was a conscious decision against using connectapi.

Our use-case is quite straightforward and we don't see any potential expansions on the use-cases related to the Posit API usage. Adding another dependency to do what we are already able to do with much more control since we call the API ourselves was decided to be a redundancy.

Hope that makes sense!

[DeepanshKhurana]

I'll mostly close this for now. We can reopen it in the future if necessary.