That’s a critique of Etsy’s API not of good REST resource identification. No plugging in a shop you have permission to doesn’t work if your resources are hiera

That’s a critique of Etsy’s API not of good REST resource identification. No plugging in a shop you have permission to doesn’t work if your resources are hierarchical any more than plugging ~/passwd let’s you read /etc/passwd because you have read access to your home directory. Those are different resources and one of them exists and is locked down and the other one doesn’t exist.