Thanks for the links! So I've had a look at the resources - [0] for example goes to great lengths explaining why JSON APIs are not true to the original "spirit"

Thanks for the links! So I've had a look at the resources - [0] for example goes to great lengths explaining why JSON APIs are not true to the original "spirit" of REST, but it doesn't exactly do a great job at explaining what problems would be solved (better) by hypermedia-based APIs rather than JSON (or GraphQL,...). Tbh, some of this feels a bit like "What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux...". I am eager to do studying before I just hack away with whatever tool I don't really understand (hence why I created the post) and it seems there are some useful resources there. But my main goal is to study for the sake of building, not getting drawn into a niche for the sake of purism. For example, would I be able to create a nice-looking game app with smooth animations such as [1] using mostly basic HTML, like HTMX seems to encourage? [0] https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/ https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi... [1] https://figure.game/ https://figure.game/