You are supposed to do use those 3 through some kind of heavy tool, while it's well understood that you do rest with just an http library.
Rest is simpler, but comes at the cost of a lot of nice things like automatic endpoints generation and type verification. The problem is that the heavy tooling tends to not be there or not work correctly. But this is not a win for that kind of simplicity, that's a reason to improve the protocol design.
