Is HATEOAS generally considered good? I recently had to integrate to two corporate systems. One, the API used typical GET, POST, PUT, etc.. The second (befor

Is HATEOAS generally considered good? I recently had to integrate to two corporate systems. One, the API used typical GET, POST, PUT, etc.. The second (before I knew the term applied to this) provided a single URL whose response was needed to describe the other operations. I remember instinctively hating the second. Now MY code has the burden of translating these into the specific calls. However, now we are version proofed.