I’m a huge fan of (the original meaning of) REST, but… I agree with you!
REST is for building cooperating standards based systems.
Almost nobody these days is particularly invested in building standards to have different companies with different clients and servers interoperate anymore, everyone is focused on customer acquisition and monetization.
So there’s really not much point in creating and deploying solutions aiming at this kind of interoperable standard.
The folks at Fastmail are still trying to do this, more power to them, but they’re swimming upstream, I think.
REST is for building cooperating standards based systems.
Almost nobody these days is particularly invested in building standards to have different companies with different clients and servers interoperate anymore, everyone is focused on customer acquisition and monetization.
So there’s really not much point in creating and deploying solutions aiming at this kind of interoperable standard.
The folks at Fastmail are still trying to do this, more power to them, but they’re swimming upstream, I think.