The term is used wrong most of the time now, if you try to be more precise you're likely to confuse people not aware of the original meaning of REST. And there'

The term is used wrong most of the time now, if you try to be more precise you're likely to confuse people not aware of the original meaning of REST. And there's not a really nice term for JSON-based web API that is as short as REST. Many web APIs are not REST, but still take at least a tiny bit of inspiration from it. Mostly the resource-based structure, not so much any of the other stuff like HATOAS. In practice the self-describing nature simply isn't useful enough, so most people don't bother.