Comment by cryptos

The big problem I see with the practical adoption of REST principles is that a human can easily intpret a document and pick the desired transation (e.g. follow a link), but a program can not so easily do that. Maybe in the age of AI it becomes more realistic, but most of the time some "RESTful" back-end is used by a certain front-end application. What is needed is basically more like RPC. Maybe SOAP was closer to what we actually do and need. The specification and code generation was much better than what we have now with mediocre OpenAPI code generators.

Maybe gRPC or something like that will fill the gap ...