Ideas for Improving the Getting Started Experience

I would appreciate better documentation of working with APIs that don’t match JSONAPI or even REST formats. As a beginner trying to figure out how to use Ember Data with a simple existing API that returns things like

[{"productName":"Wingnuts"},{"productName":"Moonchips"}]

has been nightmarish. The existing documentation does however do a good job of walking the learner through the cases where the responses are in a standard format.