AI does not need MCP to call an API.
It can make HTTP requests directly. Read the documentation. Handle authentication. Parse the response. No connector. No MCP server. Just the API and the model.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a clean standard that makes this more structured and easier to work with at scale. It is worth knowing. But it is not what makes AI capable of replacing connectors.
What makes AI capable of replacing connectors is that the underlying problem, non-developers cannot write API calls, is no longer a hard constraint.
The connector existed to paper over that gap. The gap is closing.
MCP or no MCP, that changes what Power Automate connectors are for.
What are you doing with that?