Live does a hellalot more than facilitate chat, and that goes beyond gaming.
There’s been a couple of instances where Netflix streaming was down (last time I recall was about a year an a half ago), but because Xbox Live has its own infrastructure that ties into Netflix, the Xbox was the only device able to stream.
That just proves the APIs are out there – like you said – not a resource problem.
Microsoft just wants to do their own thing
No, This just proves you actually aren’t aware of the issues involved, even though they’ve been widely covered in many a story over the past two years… just look above before you type “Source”.
