[justinhj]

I absolutely agree with your points, and that's good advice as long as your application works by modifying resources of a single type with each request. In my specific case we wanted to reduce round trips to the server by using compound commands that may do multiple things on the backend, affecting multiple entity types that would have to be, in rest, a resource. Also in our case my team was responsible for the client and the server, and the commands/responses are clearly documented for everyone to see.