Comment by Balooga

Keep in mind that Fielding used his "REST" principles to drive work on the release of HTTP 1.1 in 1999. He subsequently codified these RESTful principles in his dissertation in 2000. The first JSON message was sent in 2001. The reason RESTful is perfectly suited to the WWW is because REST drove HTTP 1.1, not the other way around.

Now days there are just so many use cases where an architecture is more suited to RPC (and POST). And trying to bend the architecture to be "more RESTful" just serves to complicate.