This is fair, what I think ended up happening in the 2010s is that REST was pushed similar to XML, a solution for all application problems (it wasn’t like Fie

This is fair, what I think ended up happening in the 2010s is that REST was pushed similar to XML, a solution for all application problems (it wasn’t like Fielding was not pushing this view either), and realistically the useful scope of REST and Hypermedia is quite limited.