Thanks for putting it succinctly. I was going over some REST design principles and the "no verbs in the URL" thing is just really awkward and not intuitive (and

Thanks for putting it succinctly. I was going over some REST design principles and the "no verbs in the URL" thing is just really awkward and not intuitive (and something being non-intuitive leads to complexity in my opinion). As in your examples, people think in terms of data (noun) and what they want to do with it (verb). Cramming everything into 4-ish verbs makes it awkward. The solution given for this is usually to put the action in the body. But that feels like working around a limitation that doesn't even have to be there.