Anything that includes put patch delete is not pragmatic. Changes have side effects in any nontrivial system, making the semantic goal little more than wishful

Anything that includes put patch delete is not pragmatic. Changes have side effects in any nontrivial system, making the semantic goal little more than wishful thinking. As others (even within the first few comments) figure out, being able to specify every mutable element from a GET is the most pragmatic quality of a modern web api.