You make a wonderful point, but I think there are some use cases that deserve their own standard, something independent of REST. We we give tightly-coupled Web APIs a new banner to march under, we can have the benefit of a standard way of approaching these APIs without breaking all the rules of REST. You can read about one such proposal here: https://medium.com/@trevorhreed/you-re-api-isn-t-restful-and-that-s-good-b2662079cf0e