[culturedsystems]

It's an API for a specific hypermedia client, i.e, a web browser. It's not obvious that it's the best hypermedia API for a different client, for example, a JavaScript application that happens to be running in a web browser.

[recursivedoubts]

well, if you are building a hypermedia client, good luck to you

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/restful-web-clients/978...

it's not a trivial task though