I agree with your sentiment. We were excited by HTTP2 at the time for use in embedded/iot devices (e.g. out of order responses to relax buffering, compression t

I agree with your sentiment. We were excited by HTTP2 at the time for use in embedded/iot devices (e.g. out of order responses to relax buffering, compression to save bandwidth) until we understood it is close to being unimplementable. To me the realisation hit hard, realizing webtech is all about CDNs and large plattforms being accessed with Chrome not about enabling HATEOAS for everyone.