I don't think what the developers are asking for is inherently not RESTful, as long as there is already a strict REST implementation. Adding composite resources

I don't think what the developers are asking for is inherently not RESTful, as long as there is already a strict REST implementation. Adding composite resources in addition to the decoupled ones seems like a intuitive way to improve the usability of the API and the performance of the application (so there aren't so many API calls for common procedures.)