Agreed... in most large (non trivial systems) REST ends up looking/devolving closer to RPC more and more and you end up just using get and post for most things

Agreed... in most large (non trivial systems) REST ends up looking/devolving closer to RPC more and more and you end up just using get and post for most things and end up with a REST-ISH-RPC system in practice. REST purists will not be happy, but that's reality.