This stood out to me as well. The author must have a particular understanding of REST that differs from the usual sense in which it’s used. He might be technica

This stood out to me as well. The author must have a particular understanding of REST that differs from the usual sense in which it’s used. He might be technically correct — I haven’t read the primary sources related to REST — but it distracted from the meat and potatoes of the article, which is really a comparison of gRPC and OpenAPI. It seemed very strange for this reason.