I think the point is that many people in the wild conflate the term “REST API” with “arbitrary interaction over HTTP”. We’ve all seen examples, the one-off endp

I think the point is that many people in the wild conflate the term “REST API” with “arbitrary interaction over HTTP”. We’ve all seen examples, the one-off endpoint to fetch that little tertiary bit of data, that one-off POST to invalidate a cache. None of that is REST