Hm this was the predominant way things were done about 10 years ago, and I think many people decided it ended up being harder to read. Take this to its logical

Hm this was the predominant way things were done about 10 years ago, and I think many people decided it ended up being harder to read. Take this to its logical conclusion, and you end up with "http://mywebsite/getUserProfileFirstAddress" http://mywebsite/getUserProfileFirstAddress" when you want an endpoint that just returns the first address (or you end up with lots of stuff in a query string that ends up becoming a quasi-programming language), as opposed to a "restful" way of doing it, "user/1/profile/address/1". It's not so much about being readable for computers, we can solve that problem, it's about being readable for humans, which is the harder problem to solve.