I'm not sure the criticism in that blog has much to with anything. HATEOAS is about an approach to managing application state, not self-documenting APIs. I sup

I'm not sure the criticism in that blog has much to with anything. HATEOAS is about an approach to managing application state, not self-documenting APIs. I suppose it still gets at the big problem with a restful approach: nobody really gets it. (Personally, I think there are some great ideas in that dissertation, but HATEOAS isn't one of them. At least as far as I can tell.)