> The (web) client can make any additional actions available to the user without further interpreting the response as it would with the JSON version. What happ

> The (web) client can make any additional actions available to the user without further interpreting the response as it would with the JSON version. What happens when there is no user and it's fully automated? Everywhere in the post where you say "you", you're referring to an intelligent user interacting with the website which is the point being made - hypermedia REST works well in an interactive context, but an automated context needs something simpler, more reliable, & more parseably stable than the more mutable UX you'd send the user. The point is that this breaks down when you have automation interacting with a service that has no concept of agency - it's executing specific sets of functions against endpoints and discovery is not particularly relevant as that discovery happens once when the programmer writes the automation code.