The text discusses the challenges of implementing a multicloud architecture and how API gateways can help mitigate these issues. The author argues that building a multicloud model without a strong forcing function is complex and hard, with numerous pain points such as cross-cloud networking, identity and access management (IAM), time to market for services, observability, and security. However, an API gateway can unify routing and ingress across clouds, centralize security policies, standardize service exposure, provide a single view of API traffic, and integrate observability, making multicloud the easy way. The author suggests that using a self-deployable API gateway like Kong Gateway or NGINX may require significant setup and maintenance burdens, but can help avoid vendor lock-in.