I never liked the ('orthodox') RESTful approach when building web apps and I didn't understand why so many codebases I've worked with seemed to bend over backwa

I never liked the ('orthodox') RESTful approach when building web apps and I didn't understand why so many codebases I've worked with seemed to bend over backwards to be as RESTful as possible with (seemingly) no benefit. I feel like I now have a slightly better understanding of why I felt this way (and some more 'authoritative' support, I guess).