That's a fair criticism. On the other hand, I do find it useful to be able to construct an API where `PUT /object/1` will create an object, and `DELETE /object/

That's a fair criticism. On the other hand, I do find it useful to be able to construct an API where `PUT /object/1` will create an object, and `DELETE /object/1` will destroy it. It helps me keep things a bit more organized that way, but it wouldn't be hard to add the verb to the end of the URL instead. I would probably be in favor of some more strict guards around specific verbs, but I don't really know how that would be implemented given that the behavior is always controlled by the developer at the end of the day. Web frameworks adhering to these conventions is probably a good thing, though, and in my somewhat limited experience, that seems to generally be the case (though they often still let the developer override the behavior).