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The first example shows a GET request and states that it is "common and interoperable query". But that "if the query parameters extend to several kilobytes or more of data it may not be, because many implementations place limits on their size".

So how about simply removing those limits on GET requests?

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The installed base of HTTP processing devices is ridiculously huge. There is no practical way to change the existing behavior of GET.

There are thousands of pieces of software which have those limitations built in intentionally or unintentionally though. Using a new verb avoids that issue

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