Not moronic, just smaller in scope. Media types require considerably more work to design than APIs, as is often noted by REST proponents. The guy who invented R

Not moronic, just smaller in scope. Media types require considerably more work to design than APIs, as is often noted by REST proponents. The guy who invented REST calls it "engineering on the scale of decades". If You Ain't Gonna Need That then you're wasting a lot of time by doing it that way.