I did a little bit of browsing old discussions and that was not my impression. They did say that they were not considering SSO, but a read-only API is a different issue.
From this post:
Creating read only APIs is a prioritization issue.
From this post:
The BSA planned to produce Read Only APIs but due to budget cuts and other higher priority items, this work item has been postponed indefinitely.
The BSA is aware of the desire but because of API work needed to retire ScoutNET this year, which must happen, the API developers are not available for the foreseeable future.
