REST will stay, you can wash your SOAP away

This is mostly you evangelizing REST without giving any concrete reasons as to why.. e.g REST is simple, succinct, easily scalable, consumable everywhere - these are all very subjective points.

If you really think REST is so great, do some research on why its better than SOAP (or other alternatives), and provide real reasons for those beliefs. This is just unwarranted fanboy-ism.