Was your use of REST/HATEOAS mostly internal to your company or dev team? I ask because I rolled out a REST/HATEOAS api for a multi-org project and got zero up

Was your use of REST/HATEOAS mostly internal to your company or dev team? I ask because I rolled out a REST/HATEOAS api for a multi-org project and got zero uptake on the HATEOAS aspect of responses. The devs hardcoded URL resource links and totally ignored any links in responses . . . After that experience, I am always interested to hear about more successful REST/HATEOAS projects.