Removing a Query parameter is considered a breaking change while removing a Request Body parameter isn't

While testing this tool, we've noticed that removing a query parameter would give a API changes broke backward compatibility result while removing a request body parameter would return a API changes are backward compatible. Shouldn't both be breaking changes?

If this is expected, we'd be curious to understand why that is.

Here are the spec files we used to test this:

old_queryparameter.yml :

openapi: "3.0.1"
info:
  title: "Public Api"
  description: ""
  version: "2022-08-23T16:17:54Z"
servers:
  - url: "https://someurl"
    variables:
      basePath:
        default: "/v1"
paths:
  /auth:
    post:
      parameters:
        - name: "Username"
          in: "query"
          required: true
          schema:
            type: "string"
        - name: "Password"
          in: "query"
          required: true
          schema:
            type: "string"

new_queryparameter.yml :

openapi: "3.0.1"
info:
  title: "Public Api"
  description: ""
  version: "2022-08-23T16:17:54Z"
servers:
  - url: "https://someurl"
    variables:
      basePath:
        default: "/v1"
paths:
  /auth:
    post:
      parameters:
        - name: "Username"
          in: "query"
          required: true
          schema:
            type: "string"

old_requestbody.yml:

openapi: "3.0.1"
info:
  title: "Public Api"
  description: ""
  version: "2022-08-23T16:17:54Z"
servers:
  - url: "https://someurl"
    variables:
      basePath:
        default: "/v1"
paths:
  /auth:
    post:
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: "#/components/schemas/AuthRequest"
        required: true

components:
  schemas:
    AuthRequest:
      required:
        - "Username"
        - "Password"
      type: "object"
      properties:
        Username:
          type: "string"
        Password:
          type: "string"

new_requestbody.yml:

openapi: "3.0.1"
info:
  title: "Public Api"
  description: ""
  version: "2022-08-23T16:17:54Z"
servers:
  - url: "https://someurl"
    variables:
      basePath:
        default: "/v1"
paths:
  /auth:
    post:
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: "#/components/schemas/AuthRequest"
        required: true

components:
  schemas:
    AuthRequest:
      required:
        - "Username"
      type: "object"
      properties:
        Username:
          type: "string"

Thank you!

Reproduce the comparison using old_queryparameter.yml/new_queryparameter.yml and old_requestbody.yml/new_requestbody.yml from the issue, then inspect the compatibility comparison entry points for query parameters and request-body schemas. Compare the reported results with the expected breaking-change behavior; check pull request #474 before starting because it is already open against this issue.