RTF tried to make it clear in his famous dissertation that REST was about resource-oriented hypermedia, and that apps not designed around hypermedia should use

RTF tried to make it clear in his famous dissertation that REST was about resource-oriented hypermedia, and that apps not designed around hypermedia should use different architectures -- he even names some of them. Unfortunately he inspired many followers to interpret it to mean that hypermedia is the One And Only True Way to design apps for the web.