[curt15]

What some people call pedantic, others may call precision. I normally just call the not-quite-REST API styles as simply "HTTP APIs" or even "RPC-style" APIs if they use POST to retrieve data or name their routes in terms of actions (like some AWS APIs).

[infecto]

Like all things in life it’s about balance. If you are to say things like the person I replied to says he does you are ultimately creating friction for absolutely no gain. Hence why I said being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic or in other words, being difficult for no good reason. There is a time and place for everything but over a decade plus of working and building many different APIs I see no benefit.

I cannot even recall a time where it caused me enough issues to even think about it later on. The business logic. I have had moments where I thought something was strange in a Elasticsearch API but again it was of no consequence.