[naasking]

> Have we considered that these REST "anti-patterns" exist because REST is fundamentally inappropriate for what most people are trying to use it for?

Or perhaps people actually don't understand REST, but think they do, thus leading to endless blog articles about "REST levels" and other nonsense.

> What if you can't shoehorn your functionality into the handful of REST verbs?

GET and POST can represent any arbitrary program (they map to the lambda calculus after all). You don't need any more than that, in principle. The other verbs are merely optimizations.

> What ever happened to plain old RPC?

The inescapable failure modes of RPC are exactly what REST addresses.