I read your articles. I disagree with your foundational premise. HTML is a presentation / structure mechanism. HATEOAS isn’t _only_ for humans, but HTML is. Th

I read your articles. I disagree with your foundational premise. HTML is a presentation / structure mechanism. HATEOAS isn’t _only_ for humans, but HTML is. The APIs that I built _were_ hypermedia. The only way to properly use them was to follow the links in the data. The problem wasn’t the APIs or even the software clients. It was the developers who didn’t see the point of it and ended up developing versions that broke the pattern. If all you have to worry about is a web browser, then you can start from your foundational premise. Most of us have to deal with all sorts of clients.