You're wasting your breath. REST zealots will never be convinced that anything other than the magic four of GET / PUT / POST / DELETE is necessary. It's like s

You're wasting your breath. REST zealots will never be convinced that anything other than the magic four of GET / PUT / POST / DELETE is necessary. It's like someone advocating writing all software should be written in Brainfuck, because the cognitive load of remembering eight operators is so much easier than learning all these keywords and syntax and runtime libraries that come in other languages. Except whereas our imagined Brainfuck advocate would be rightly ignored, REST has somehow become the fucking dominating paradigm of our industry. The idea that reduced complexity in one area might trade off with much greater complexity in another simply does not wash with these people. They have a resource & verb shaped hammer, and they are going to use it to batter each and every API into some kind of nail shape, no matter the effort it takes and the carnage that ensues.