I generally like the idea of a resource-oriented API, this seems pretty intuitive and useful. And that part mostly survived even in APIs that are otherwise noth

I generally like the idea of a resource-oriented API, this seems pretty intuitive and useful. And that part mostly survived even in APIs that are otherwise nothing like the original REST idea. But many other parts of the original idea just don't seem useful enough to be worth the effort. And there are parts where I don't think pure REST has good solutions (or I'm not understanding REST well enough to know them), mostly around bulk actions. The moment you want to act on multiple instances of a resource you have to invent your own stuff, it doesn't fit well with the usual REST layout. And there are very good reasons to need this, just iterating over resources is not a solution in terms of performance and transactional behaviour.