[FranOntanaya]

> originally REST was all about self-reporting and discoverability

I don't think this is accurate. Discoverability was the bonus score piece, the most fundamental parts were statelessness and caching.

A lot of grievances in early web development came from state breaking when people browsed back, reloaded pages, did other things between requests, or got hit by pretty aggressive caching.

Nothing intrinsically REST-blocking in the original zero JavaScript, form-based apps, they were just that messy and expected people to follow a linear path on a single browser window.

People where solving these problems for the first time (for the web), and they actually needed to be told to care for state.