I think it's also basically useless for user interfaces. The purpose of HATEOAS seems to be to provide web crawling clients (human or otherwise) visibility of

I think it's also basically useless for user interfaces. The purpose of HATEOAS seems to be to provide web crawling clients (human or otherwise) visibility of the arbitrary actions/links that a particular endpoint provides in a particular state - but the links are disconnected from their context and intended interaction with the page. HATEOAS doesn't seem to acknowledge that a UI needs to provide context for user actions, or that API integrations are designed up front with full knowledge of the API contract . It seems to me the only thing HATEOAS is useful for is browsing black and white pages with a bunch of blue and purple links. Or maybe SEO