I honestly don’t know how someone can design a truly HATEOAS API without breaking everyone’s expectations and making it a chore for people to deal with it. If

I honestly don’t know how someone can design a truly HATEOAS API without breaking everyone’s expectations and making it a chore for people to deal with it. If stuffing a bunch of links into your JSON response is what truly transforms your RPC into REST (I don’t see what else makes GitHub API so different from other APIs), then I don’t even know what’s the point of that. And surely it is only superficially similar to the non-API REST, ie how simple websites usually work.