In my opinion, overengineering is putting JSON into a URL or exposing data as a resource and putting a URL parameter to it in a URL only to avoid an actual requ

In my opinion, overengineering is putting JSON into a URL or exposing data as a resource and putting a URL parameter to it in a URL only to avoid an actual request body, for some unclear reason. I believe all the described tactics come from a static html limitations territory where it makes sense to put continuation data in hrefs to avoid forms and javascript.