I agree with everything you said. One thing though, I think "One Special Bigger Request" still makes sense in a lot of situation where you have some kind of "t

I agree with everything you said. One thing though, I think "One Special Bigger Request" still makes sense in a lot of situation where you have some kind of "transaction" going on. I often encountered code that calls multiple HTTP endpoints and a failure in one of those requests would actually lead to inconsistent data in the backend. This code is pretty common because many developers assume that requests never fail.