Yeah, but I see them making a lot of the same mistakes that were made back then and I can help but notice that, in the context of web applications, you have an

Yeah, but I see them making a lot of the same mistakes that were made back then and I can help but notice that, in the context of web applications, you have an opportunity to render the UI in a trusted environment where the code being executed is guaranteed to be written by a non-hostile by just rendering/executing server-side. If you throw HATEOS-without-thinking-or-arguing-about-it on top of that, it seems like a no brainer to bias toward that approach. I used to think that web apps were dumb and thick apps were obviously better in most cases, but I've changed my tune in the last few years as I've come to understand HATEOS and disentangle it from the JSON API quagmire it got into: http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html