In practice, I rarely see anyone use "PATCH" (across at least 3 companies w/their own APIs) I often see "PUT" implemented as an "update fields if present": if a

In practice, I rarely see anyone use "PATCH" (across at least 3 companies w/their own APIs) I often see "PUT" implemented as an "update fields if present": if a field is in the request, update it, otherwise don't.