Hello, @bitshift
Since I failed to make it clear at the very beginning and failed to explain in the second attempt, I am either a very poor communicator, or I misunderstood the post Pattern for making Storybook and useAuth play nice.
Third time should work though: had I named my article making RedwoodJS and Stripe play nice, the analogy between these two articles would be more obvious. In Storybook and RW app you seem to be dealing with interaction between RW app authentication and mocking (needed to Storybook). RW app and Stripe we have a pretty strong case of “impedance mismatch” between RW concept of security and Stripe concept of security. In a Redwood app integrated with Stripe (use the case where Redwood app uses Stripe API as the most general case), the flow goes from RW to Strapi and back many times a second, and I am not sure that I understand the cases where RW app compromises Strapi.
I tried to discuss this with Stripe support and managed to get into their second level. At the moment still waiting …