Actually, you agree with half of the people here who claim that REST wasn't about designing API. Because it isn't. The other half who claim that REST is an arch

Actually, you agree with half of the people here who claim that REST wasn't about designing API. Because it isn't. The other half who claim that REST is an architectural style for API still don't understand what that dissertation was about, and it wasn't about 2 web apps communicating with each others. We already have plenty of protocols for that, REST isn't one.