The usefulness of metadata in rest responses ended up not mattering as much as people thought in most cases. Pagination is the best counter example but many res

The usefulness of metadata in rest responses ended up not mattering as much as people thought in most cases. Pagination is the best counter example but many rest apis do return next/prev links in the payload or in the headers. It’s still REST but the parts that mattered (http verbs for semantic info, etc) stayed around.