[mahmoudimus]

I'm the CTO @ https://balancedpayments.com.

This is exactly the case. We asked our customers to store the URIs in their databases and we ended up changing core resource locations and migrating older clients by just issuing 301s.

The extent was that we restructured entire URLs, changed endpoints. Hypermedia is baked into our clients from the start and they make API versioning and updates trivial.

We were able to quickly move customers to different endpoints and easily restructure our API without having to worry about backward compatibility.

Hypermedia APIs are a godsend. There's still lots of work to do and I'm happy to contribute to adoption.